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Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child | Summary & Analysis
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This is a Summary & Analysis of Personal by Lee Child. Native Englishman and current New Yorker Lee Child returns to his bestselling Jack Reacher series in Personal. Action-packed, the novel follows Reacher back and forth across the Atlantic as he works to investigate the attempted assassination of the French president by a shooter the United States would happily disclaim—only to find that a plot, orchestrated by a master planner, is afoot.
Who are the suspects? Through trips between the US and France and the US and England, Reacher tries to unravel the conspiracy that prompted the assassination attempt in the first place—a conspiracy meant to return one man to power who had thought he had seen it slip away from him in his advancing age. This companion/analysis to Personal unravels every plot, symbol, theme...
All in all, Lee Child’s Personal is an entertaining read with much to recommend it. If there are places in the text where the author’s attention seems to have lapsed, there are also many where the level of detail provided is excellent and excellently handled, and, as a way to spend a day, reading it is a good one.
This Analysis of Personal fills the gap, making you understand more while enhancing your reading experience.
This is a Summary & Analysis of Personal by Lee Child. Native Englishman and current New Yorker Lee Child returns to his bestselling Jack Reacher series in Personal. Action-packed, the novel follows Reacher back and forth across the Atlantic as he works to investigate the attempted assassination of the French president by a shooter the United States would happily disclaim—only to find that a plot, orchestrated by a master planner, is afoot.
Who are the suspects? Through trips between the US and France and the US and England, Reacher tries to unravel the conspiracy that prompted the assassination attempt in the first place—a conspiracy meant to return one man to power who had thought he had seen it slip away from him in his advancing age. This companion/analysis to Personal unravels every plot, symbol, theme...
All in all, Lee Child’s Personal is an entertaining read with much to recommend it. If there are places in the text where the author’s attention seems to have lapsed, there are also many where the level of detail provided is excellent and excellently handled, and, as a way to spend a day, reading it is a good one.
This Analysis of Personal fills the gap, making you understand more while enhancing your reading experience.
- GenresMystery
55 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 17, 2014
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August 6, 2023
Oameni își vor pune întotdeauna propriul interes pe primul loc, mai ales dacă ai de plătit o datorie față de cineva. Atunci când ai fost în vârf și riști să cazi calci pe cadavre că să rămâi unde ești, dar nu îi poți păcăli chiar pe toți. Un volum destul de bun.
November 25, 2014
Spy-thriller on steroids. Reacher plus the world’s key spy agencies and their high tech gadgets try to prevent the world’s best snipers from picking off heads of state at a G8 meeting. You ask me, I prefer Reacher versus the world in the back end of nowhere. But I have to admit this is as crisp and well-told as any of the previous books, maybe more so.
The State Department, CIA, NSA, the military services, Britain’s MI5 and MI6, France’s DGSE, and even the Russian SVR (formerly KGB), all team up to locate and neutralize potentially the five best snipers the world has ever seen. The first five thousand words where the American element frames the mission for Reacher have some of the sharpest dialogue I’ve ever read. Things get rolling first in Paris where one of the experts standing next to Reacher is blasted from three quarters of a mile away. The scene moves to Arkansas where the suspected American sniper’s secluded practice facility is found, complete with mock target of Reacher himself. The last two thirds of the book take place in London where Reacher and his young female CIA side-kick, Casey Nice, try to stay alive and find the suspect(s). As they wade into a web of old fashioned Brit gangsters and their upstart Serbian rivals, the clock is ticking in more ways than one. The G8 meeting is now just days away and Ms. Nice may run out of the last few of her anxiety pills and go batty.
Pretty sure this was written for the big screen as much as for the reading market. It moves as fast as a Reacher kick to the knee. Did I mention I only put it down to eat and sleep?
The State Department, CIA, NSA, the military services, Britain’s MI5 and MI6, France’s DGSE, and even the Russian SVR (formerly KGB), all team up to locate and neutralize potentially the five best snipers the world has ever seen. The first five thousand words where the American element frames the mission for Reacher have some of the sharpest dialogue I’ve ever read. Things get rolling first in Paris where one of the experts standing next to Reacher is blasted from three quarters of a mile away. The scene moves to Arkansas where the suspected American sniper’s secluded practice facility is found, complete with mock target of Reacher himself. The last two thirds of the book take place in London where Reacher and his young female CIA side-kick, Casey Nice, try to stay alive and find the suspect(s). As they wade into a web of old fashioned Brit gangsters and their upstart Serbian rivals, the clock is ticking in more ways than one. The G8 meeting is now just days away and Ms. Nice may run out of the last few of her anxiety pills and go batty.
Pretty sure this was written for the big screen as much as for the reading market. It moves as fast as a Reacher kick to the knee. Did I mention I only put it down to eat and sleep?
June 12, 2022
I read the book - not the synopsis - but I can't find it in good reads...
Pretty good Reacher novel - goes to London to fight of a sniper that has it in for him. Kept me entertained for the weekend.
Pretty good Reacher novel - goes to London to fight of a sniper that has it in for him. Kept me entertained for the weekend.
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June 19, 2024Jack reacher story. Great series, on to the next.]
March 12, 2025
Great read I enjoyed the book.
December 15, 2014
Someone has taken a shot at the President of France and only the bullet-proof glass surrounding him has saved his life. The attempted assassination has alerted the governments of Britain, Russia, France and the United States. Since the distance that the shot was taken from indicates that the assassin is one in a million, the CIA and the State Department locate Jack Reacher and call him to Washington.
Reacher once got one John Kott put away for 15 years. And Kott was a fantastic marksman who could kill from almost a mile away. Now Kott has been released and he may be an assassin for hire OR he may be hunting Reacher for revenge.There are 3 other possible assassins but the hunt soon narrows the field to two.....a British marksman named Carson and Kott. Since there is going to be a G-8 meeting in London , that is where the effort to stop any planned assassination will be concentrated.
It seems that Reacher is thought of as some sort of 'bait' because they know that Kott has promised to avenge himself against Reacher. And now the hunt is on.....Jack is partnered with a young , bright CIA agent, Casey Nice and they also have the assistance of a British agent named Bennett.
Fans of Lee Child and Jack Reacher will not be disappointed with the non-stop action. I appreciate that Child has allowed Reacher to age throughout the series and not remain the 28 year old MP just released from the Army.
Reacher once got one John Kott put away for 15 years. And Kott was a fantastic marksman who could kill from almost a mile away. Now Kott has been released and he may be an assassin for hire OR he may be hunting Reacher for revenge.There are 3 other possible assassins but the hunt soon narrows the field to two.....a British marksman named Carson and Kott. Since there is going to be a G-8 meeting in London , that is where the effort to stop any planned assassination will be concentrated.
It seems that Reacher is thought of as some sort of 'bait' because they know that Kott has promised to avenge himself against Reacher. And now the hunt is on.....Jack is partnered with a young , bright CIA agent, Casey Nice and they also have the assistance of a British agent named Bennett.
Fans of Lee Child and Jack Reacher will not be disappointed with the non-stop action. I appreciate that Child has allowed Reacher to age throughout the series and not remain the 28 year old MP just released from the Army.
October 26, 2014
There is an assassination attempt on the French President from a distance that only 5 snipers in the world could have done. Jack Reacher had put one of them in jail 16 years ago and he is now out. Jack Reacher is basically called in to act as bait to pull out this one sniper who is out for revenge. There are gangsters including one who is 7 feet tall, an female agent who takes anxiety pills plus a general running the operation who Reacher dislikes. There are a lot of twists and turns and Reacher trying to figure it all out. A good addition to this series.
November 29, 2014
Jack Reacher is back to fight the bad guys but this time he has been coopted by the IS government to go ater a sner he had put on jail 16 years earlier. Working with a CIA agent named Casey Nice, which she is, they go to London to try to prevent an assisination during the G8. I couldn't put it down, a grat addition to this series.
November 10, 2014
Child back to his best.A bellringer of a story.Plenty of guile and action.He(Child) really is a great action writer.Recommended.
October 10, 2014
Best line - Reacher being called 'Sherlock Holmless'
November 4, 2014
This is the least thrilling of the more than a dozen Reacher thrillers I have read.
November 5, 2014
A typical Lee Child book...
November 30, 2014
Formulaic thriller but still great fun.
November 21, 2014
A little disappointing this time around.....too much scenery and technical jargon...
November 25, 2014
Good old formula novel. Love Jack Reacher.
September 28, 2015
I wasn't as impressed with this Jack Reacher novel - I found it a little slow although the P.O.V. narration was as consistent as ever (e.g. logical thought, analysing situations etc.)
July 14, 2015
If you like Jack Reacher you will like this book.
December 27, 2015
Another great novel by Lee Child
I always enjoy books by Lee Child and this book . Is . No exception. I highly recommend this book.
I always enjoy books by Lee Child and this book . Is . No exception. I highly recommend this book.
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October 3, 2018Couldn't finish it, was just NOT getting into it.
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