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The Sentinel: A gripping novel in the Jack Reacher thriller series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling authors Kindle Edition

4.4 out of 5 stars 69,529 ratings

The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2021 - his 25th adventure. No one's bigger than Jack Reacher.

Jack Reacher hitches a ride to a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along.

Not going to happen.

The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether
he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks.

As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them . . .

And now Rusty knows he's protected, he's never going to leave the big man's side.

Reacher might just have to stick around and find out what the hell's gone wrong . . . and then put it right, like only he can.

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'Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.' Ken Follett

'If you haven't read any Jack Reacher, you have a treat in store . . . a hitchhiker without a phone, a one-man force for good.' - The Times

'A contemporary version of the knight in shining armour . . . Reacher is a mythic figure.' Literary Review

'Jack Reacher is a wonderfully epic hero; tough, taciturn, yet vulnerable... Irresistible.' People

'Jack Reacher has long since earned his prominent place in the pantheon of cool, smart-talking American heroes.' New York Times

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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order,
The Sentinel is the 25th in the series.

And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! ***OUT NOW***

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I loved The Sentinel! Classic Reacher, great story. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. ― Conn Iggulden

Thoroughly entertaining . . . when the world is crumbling, it's good to have some of Reacher's brutal certainties back. ―
The Times

The one man revenge machine seems revitalised. Great stuff. ―
Sun

The Sentinel shows that two Childs are even better than one. ― James Patterson

It's great to be back in Reacher's company in a world where the bad guys get what's coming to them. A smooth transition for a much-loved character. ―
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The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2020 - his 25th adventure. No one's bigger than Jack Reacher.

Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along.

Not going to happen.

The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether
he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks.

As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them . . .

And now Rusty knows he's protected, he's never going to leave the big man's side.

Reacher might just have to stick around and find out what the hell's gone wrong . . . and then put it right, like only he can.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B084272YSN
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Transworld Digital (27 Oct. 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.6 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 381 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1787633616
  • Customer reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 69,529 ratings

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Customers find the book to be a thrilling read, with one describing it as a fine episode in the Jack Reacher series. However, the storyline receives mixed reactions, with some customers finding it gripping while others note that the plot makes little sense.

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540 customers mention ‘Readability’446 positive94 negative

Customers find the book highly readable, describing it as a page-turner that never fails to thrill the reader.

"...That could be due to the recent disappointments but all in all, it was quite good...." Read more

"Never fails to keep me glued until the end! Awesome read as always! looking forward to start the next book!" Read more

"...Overall it's very engaging. Sure, there some oddities to Reacher - he speaks more. He explains more...." Read more

"...(That prize goes to Past Tense - by a long way.) But, overall, it's very good, I much enjoyed it and I expect them to get better, a little more..." Read more

364 customers mention ‘Storyline’209 positive155 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the storyline of the book, with some finding it great and gripping, while others note that the plot makes little sense and isn't as addictive as in previous books.

"Another action packed book by this author" Read more

"...The ending was a bit disappointing but I am curious now as to how Andrew's second foray into the Reacher world goes." Read more

"...The plot is more interesting and involving than several of the previous entries in the series - it certainly has more twists and surprises...." Read more

"...Then he decides to stick around for a couple of days. It's a good, promising start and you can start to believe that all is well now that Andrew..." Read more

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I was a bit skeptical at the reviews that went up just hours after launch. My history is I discovered Lee Child 2 years ago and bought all books and read them one after another. I read this over 2 days. It does have a slightly 'Reacher Light' feel to it. As if this is just one of his not so epic adventures. But not every battle can be like his fight with Pauly. My understanding is that Andrew wrote this and Lee read it. If that's the case, this is a brilliant start from Andrew, and if the graph of his writing goes steadily up each book I think we're in cor a great journey. Keep going Andrew. A cracker of a first Reacher book from you.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2025
    Another action packed book by this author
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2021
    I wasn't sure what to expect from this, giving that I found the last few ones in the series a bit disappointing and now the reins have been handed over to Andrew.

    I actually was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. That could be due to the recent disappointments but all in all, it was quite good. The usual scenario plays out where Reacher finds himself in a small town and gets involved in stopping an attack of an unsuspecting guy. This then leads to him being embroiled in figuring out why this guy is such a target. Cue the usual fist fights and lots of action.

    The dialogue is a bit different. Reacher is more chattier than we are used to but I didn't mind that. My issue was just that it took too long to get to the crux of the issue and figuring out who was who. The ending was a bit disappointing but I am curious now as to how Andrew's second foray into the Reacher world goes.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2025
    Never fails to keep me glued until the end!
    Awesome read as always! looking forward to start the next book!
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 October 2020
    To be fair this is much better than some of these reviews would have you believe.

    The plot is more interesting and involving than several of the previous entries in the series - it certainly has more twists and surprises. Some of the elements to it could have felt more developed (e.g. the town is under a ransomware attack - eh?), and overall the narrative could be a bit more focussed, but never mind. Overall it's very engaging.

    Sure, there some oddities to Reacher - he speaks more. He explains more. I'm not sure that's a good thing really - the whole point is that he's a man of very few words who says them only when he needs to. He doesn't tend to say them to be clever, apart from very occasionally. And the sentences overall aren't quite as "clipped" as we're used to - but if you look back to the earlier Reacher novels, neither were they always. And is stuff like that worth panning the book for? Absolutely not.

    Overall, this is a really strong Reacher entry. Let's face it - these books are written to a formula anyway, and it can't be THAT difficult to replicate if it's effectively your sole job to do so, given enough time and effort and with sufficient input from the originator himself. With the right continued handling there's much life in this series yet. I'd like to see Lee & Andrew write a few of these together before Lee steps away entirely, but as long as that happens I'm not especially worried. Still very enjoyable, and more interesting than previous entries.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 November 2020
    Like many reviewers of this book I am a regular Lee Child/Jack Reacher reader. I have read every book in this series at least twice and am part way through my third read of all of them having started once more at Killing Floor.
    Lee Child's Jack Reacher books are the only Kindle books that I now pre-order and pay full price for. I tend to wait for other authors books (e.g. Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, and John Grisham) to reduce down from £9.99 before I buy them. I also look out for top-rated new authors and give them a try when they are a reasonable price.

    The story in this book has already been covered in other reviews, so I won't go into the same detail here, but it does start off very well. Rusty Rutherford is the sacked IT manager in a sleepy no name town suffering a cyber attack, and Jack gets a lift there with an insurance guy sent to assess the value of that attack. Jack soon spots some people who look out of place and easily foils a kidnap attempt. Then he decides to stick around for a couple of days. It's a good, promising start and you can start to believe that all is well now that Andrew Child has taken the reins.

    Sadly, after the great start, the story almost seems to drift for a while, then becomes static. It lost momentum for me and I could only read a couple of pages before falling asleep in bed at night. I admit I wasn't 100% sure what The Sentinel is apart from the fact that it might be to do with cyber security and either Russians or Nazis, or maybe it is just a name for Reacher, it's not really clear, but that might be because I'm not an IT expert, so I soldiered on.

    Reacher behaves differently and becomes much more eloquent in his speech. Then when confronted he tends to try a fairly lengthy discussion first rather than to always concentrate then react like he used to react when threatened. He has become a man who uses a cellphone and knows about servers and copying computer files. That's fair enough. I don't object to that, but he is different and that much is obvious.

    For me the storyline became too cluttered and unrealistic, and I even don't particularly mind unrealistic, as many books are like that. However, I don't pay full price for cluttered and unrealistic storylines and expected better from a Reacher book. I didn't even care about the other characters because they weren't fleshed out enough in the story.

    Then there is absolutely no twist in the tale. The identity of the "baddie" and his informer are completely and blindingly obvious. You know this because there is no-one else who they could be in the whole book. Therefore the ending holds no surprises at all. Also, despite the premise that Rusty and his friend are only interested in how much money his software will make him, that part is completely abandoned and we never find out any more about it apart from the fact that Rusty is more welcome in the town at the end.

    This might sound like a review that should be worth fewer than 3 stars, but I don't want to be over critical and say the book was really bad because it wasn't. It had good parts. It had possibilities that weren't fully realised. I finished it, but felt disappointed. Would I go back again and pay £9.99 for it knowing what I know now? No I wouldn't. Will I pre-order the next book in the series at full price? No I won't. Will I read it again like I've read all of the others? No I won't. That's my honest opinion.
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  • Amazon Kunde
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gut
    Reviewed in Germany on 6 March 2025
    Ich lese Reacher-Romane auf Deutsch und auf Englisch. Ja, es gibt schon mal Längen, aber alles ist relativ. Mir gefällts
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    5.0 out of 5 stars The new Reacher is as good as the old one
    Reviewed in India on 31 December 2020
    With Andrew. Child in the picture changes were expected in the book's narrative and it is evident. But the writing is crisp, the story as relentless as ever and the action, thrills and storyline excellent I quite like this version of Jack Reacher 2.0
  • Francesco Boggio
    5.0 out of 5 stars Libro recentissimo non ancora disponibile in Italia.
    Reviewed in Italy on 12 April 2021
    Ha impiegato 3 mesi per arrivare ma è una pubblicazione recentissima, non ancora disponibile in Italia e naturalmente non ancora tradotta. ricevuto in eccellente stato.
  • Wayne Godwin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another Reacher Ripper
    Reviewed in Australia on 27 November 2020
    As with all Jack Reacher books The Sentinel did not disappoint. The plot moves at a good pace and you can easily develop a good understanding of the content. Like most Lee Child/Jack Reacher fans I'm looking forward to the next Reacher book. One thing though, no romance for Reacher in The Sentinel. Jack usually gets the girl (at least one). Another movie coming from a Jack Reacher book. Preferably with an actor befitting Jack's build and physical stature. The Sentinel is worth a second read as are all Jack Reacher books.
  • Jimchu
    5.0 out of 5 stars good plot and characters
    Reviewed in the United States on 20 April 2025
    You’ll see a new side of Reacher in this one. Typical storyline, but that always work; right? Good character development.

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