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The Hard Way

The Hard Way, May 2006
Jack Reacher #10
by Lee Child

Delacorte
Featuring: Jack Reacher
384 pages
ISBN: 0385336691
EAN: 9780385336697
Hardcover
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"Excellent and thrilling addition to the Jack Reacher series."

Fresh Fiction Review

The Hard Way
Lee Child

Reviewed by Sheila Graves
Posted April 5, 2006

Thriller

Jack Reacher is at a sidewalk cafe in New York City, having a cup of coffee, when he watches a man get into a car and drive away. Just like that, Jack is sucked into a multiple kidnapping, drawn into a battle of wills with a group of mercenaries and, being the man that he is, must do everything he can to figure out what's really going on. The lives of a kidnapped woman and child depend on it. Jack Reacher has never been in better form. Tough as nails, yet with a full heart and the in-your-face attitude he's famous for, Jack is back. And he means business. Thoroughly enjoyable, THE HARD WAY had me hooked from page one. As usual, Child's book made me think and had me, too, wondering what was really going on. A very good read.

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SUMMARY

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth- and save two innocent lives- is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way.... Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then he'll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance- because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world. On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer's past...and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He's beginning to realize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he's already in way too deep to stop now.


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