In the space of less than five years, Child has established himself as one of Britain's most successful commercial novelists...Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy ambivalent plot, and the capacity to make his readers turn the page, this feels like Child's breakthrough book into the mega-sellers. He is that good

Reacher is a hero in the old Wild West stle: a fearless and capable loner, who lives by his own set of morals and is proud never to have killed a man who didn't deserve it...The author is in complete control of his complicated plot and has produced another real pageturner

The British émigré Lee Child has become more American than the natives...A well-woven tale of dirt and duplicity with engaging characters...Child's character is a classic hero

If you like thrillers of the bang-wallop variety, with a nice bit of plotting thrown in, this is the one for you

Big, bruising actioner...Child's great strength lies in spelling out exactly how explosive things are made to happen...Cathartic stuff, expertly delivered

Gritty stuff with a high body count and intricate plotting that keeps the pages turning

A taut thriller by a British writer who handles the American suspense novel well'

Plenty of twists and plenty of excitement...another real page-turner

The Doll Princess carries the unmistakably pungent air...of deftly invoked squalor and menace, and is an impressive genre effort

Tom Benn's debut novel is a long overdue good thing in many senses... and there is much to recommend, not least Benn's sturdy grip on vernacular... What's more , he's a good writter of action - a scene in the top room of a nightclub on Deansgate early in the novel is particularly good

The Doll Princess is a promising, foul-mouthed debut in which gangsters and good guys fight for supremacy in a Manchester that resembles a war zone

immerse yourself in the language and the rhythm of the narrative and you're in for a fast and consuming ride through dark territory

a crime novel unlike any other; the voices of real people can be heard throughout its pages