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Persuader

Lee Child
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thriller military procedural/crime thriller past tense first POV ~558 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

tense gritty violent

A propulsive and dark thriller. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 85
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 40
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count139,417
Page count~558 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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