The Hard Way
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In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, ex--military cop 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.From the Hardcover edition.
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29 primary books45 released books#10 in Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher is a 45-book series with 33 released primary works first released in 3 with contributions by Lee Child, Joseph Finder, and Kathy Reichs. 1 book is still to be released. The next book is scheduled for release on .
Series
24 primary books36 released books#12 in Jack Reacher Chronological Order
Jack Reacher Chronological Order is a 36-book series with 24 released primary works first released in 3 with contributions by Lee Child, Joseph Finder, and Kathy Reichs.
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Absolutely fantastic. I was blown away by the pacing and the writing, especially those times Reacher made well-reasoned and utterly convincing predictions only for the next paragraph to say, "But Reacher was wrong." It slayed me every time!
Much better than the previous Jack Reacher book, in fact this was for me one of the best of all of them that I've read (so far). My only grumble is the dubious and somewhat cliched view of Norfolk when they drive up from London. STarts off of ok and geographically corrct but they bomb it up to, and past, Thetford without mentioning the horrendous single lane nightmare (currently anyway, it is being changed) that is the Elveden estate, or the fact that you have to stop at a roundabout every half mile around Thetford, then claiming that the road narrowed out to single track! It's faster than most of the M11 at that point! Oh and this isn't the Fens, you might have guessed I live in the area, yes it's quite flat but's NOT as flat as parts of Lincolnshire the way Child makes it out to be. Oh and getting a good sized double room with a bath at the “only pub for miles” for £40!!! Be serious. I know it's fiction, but Child is an Englishman, he surely knows he is writing cliche ridden nonsense, it does make me wonder about his descriptions of the US are they as bad? I have no clue having never been there. Rant over, it is actually a really good book :)
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