Customer Reviews
One SHOT- Totally HOT! - By: M. C. Smith, 10 Sep 2008 
Fantastic Fantastic Fantastic. From 1st page to the last Lee Child has you by the throat- a fabulous JACK REACHER adventure -thriller- Incredible!
" Reacher said nothing"
BUY!!
Love Leo Tolstoy - but Lee Child is a new favourite - By: Mr. James Smith, 22 Jul 2008 I picked up a copy of this book for free one day with a London newspaper. It sat on my shelf for weeks unread - probably partly because I had my own snobby preconceptions about Child. The adverts I'd seen for his books made them look like complete no-brainers alll about muscle & guns. Then I read One Shot & it certainly will not be the last Lee Child I read.
He paces his books perfectly & Jack Reacher is one of the great crime-fighters - hard as nails but smart, sophisticated & very 21st century in his opinions & attitudes. Child takes you through Reacher's thoughts with the skill of a master. I loved One Shot, am now reading The Enemy, & already put Child up there with my two favourite crime/thriller writers: Ian Rankin & Ian Fleming.
One read and you will be hooked - By: Mr. G. T. Redshaw, 07 May 2008 
This book was real treat (especiallly as I got it as a freebee from the Evening standard). It is my first Jack Reacher book & won't be my last. This can be a stand-alone book, although I'm sure you will get more out of it if you have read the others.
What I liked about it is that the plot kept changing & evolving as it was told trough the eyes of Jack. A minor niggle - Every now & then I found Jack `a little too right or invincible alll the time', but then if you accept that, then he is a believable character.
I'm not normallly a sucker for freebee advertising, but I'm finding myself looking around for the rest of the series.
Well crafted densely plotted thriller - By: pointone, 03 Mar 2008 It is some time since I last read a Jack Reacher thriller & obviously Lee Child's has improved over the years.
As always he grabs the reader from the first page, but has developed greater skill in drawing one into the story with finely observed detail & clever plotting & twists as Reacher does a complete U-turn in his assessment of the crime.
Although a thriller (action hero Reacher is perhaps sometimes a little too invincible) it is also a clever whodunit/howdunnit.
A fine achievement.
Very disappointing - By: crime reader, 01 Mar 2008 
I read Lee Child's 'The Hard Way' & loved it, that was what made me buy this book. Sadly this one was not in the same league. It was readable but to be honest by the time I was halfway through I couldn't have cared less who was responsible for the shootings, the charachters were so dull that there weren't any at alll that I was remotely bothered about. Jack Reacher too seems to be a somewhat ludicrous person, who can in reality live like that? How does he have the money to stay in hotels etc when he doesn't have a job? Maybe I missed something in the earlier books & he's a secret millionaire?
