Customer Reviews

Visitor

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(12)

 

 

Running Blind is a great book, as are all of Lee Child's books. Retitling it and selling it as The Visitor is a dirty trick on those of us always on the lookout for a new Jack Reacher book.

This book is "Running Blind" under a different title. It should be illegal to sell this book. I feel so cheated.

I was really excited that I had missed reading a Reacher book but it turns out to be Running Blind.

I was very disappointed when I realized the book, "The Visitor" was the same book as "Running Blind". Where is the integrity and honesty? They should be ashamed. Will make me think twice before buying another Lee Child book!!!!

My thanks to the other posters for the "Truth in Advertising" warnings that "The Visitor" is really a re-titled "Running Blind". The Jack Reacher series for me is a "buy on sight" type of thing and I might have been misled if it was not for the other reviewers.

That being said don't be put off from the original novel by the Publisher's shady marketing. Running Blind is one of the best Jack Reacher novels:
Running Blind

I've read every Lee Child novel with Jack Reacher and was set to buy this one. Thank goodness I looked here and found it is just RUNNING BLIND with a new title. The one star I gave it is for the publisher. RUNNING BLIND gets five stars.

Repackaged with the non-US title - You should pull this from sale since it the same as Running Blind. Shame on you for peaking my interest. I almost ordered it - wonder how many you will sell to folks who have already read it under the Running Blind title. Do the right thing and make it more plain that it is the non-US version. The book is great - the one star ratings is because I hate that Amazon seems to be attempting to mislead us.

This is a very shady practice and if Amazon is truly concerned with protecting the best interests of their customers they should add an entry to their standard descriptive summary that shows the Copyright Date, as do all paper published editions.

The Publishing Date alone can be more deceptive than informative. And yes, sometimes there are good reasons why copyrighted works aren't published immediately....but at a minimum at least it gives the prospective buyer/reader a clue that this may be a repackaged edition rather than a brand new release.

Wonderful book when I read it under another name. What is the deal here? This is so bait and switch. I'm ashamed of Mr. Child for going this route with his work. This is happening too often and we get all excited and it a copy with a new title and cover. This is absolutely wrong.

I'm extremely disappointed in the fact that this was a "retitled" book. I use Kindle and couldn't figure out why it wasn't offered and was considering buying a hard copy -- Another copy. While I cannot wait to read the next true offering of the Reacher series I guess I'll have to consider this and all purchases as suspect. What a poor policy.