Hugely effective fiction ... [Puzo] keeps his pack with readers to unfailingly deliver the goods

Here is all the classic material of Mafia mythology ... spins a spell all its own

Puzo's genius was to create a world so thick with personality and acknowledged rules of behaviour, along with its crime and violence, that reading his books becomes a seriously guilty pleasure

A sort of twisted whodunnit… The readability of the book comes from Parks’s wonderful and audacious juggling of farcical situations and the way in which Morris’s earnest attempts to build a more cultured and just world lead him further and further into slaughter. Hilarious.

Tarantino meets Peter Mayle

Cara Massimina was a triumph of the darkly-comic-thriller-and-something-more-besides genre. This is an even greater one

With Child, you can always count on furious action - and a damned good time.

Masterful writing and storytelling...Child makes it look effortless...If there were such a thing as a writer-magician, Lee Child woud be the face above the cloak.

Child always puts his heart into the elaborate quasi-military operations he cooks up for Reacher...But there's something even more chilling about those lonesome hours spent riding the Interstate, watching the rundown family farms and commercial strip malls and topless bars go by.

Will leave the legion of Reacher addicts satisfied but craving for their next fix.

The most satisfying of all 17 thrillers in the series. The unfolding of events nudges along at just the right rate... toward an authentically gripping climax.