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    The Hard Way: A Jack Reacher Novel

    Written by Lee Child

    Narrated by Dick Hill

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 12, 2014
    ISBN9780553546163
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    The Hard Way: A Jack Reacher Novel
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    Lee Child

    Lee Child is one of the world's leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Two blockbusting Jack Reacher movies have been made so far. He is the recipient of many awards, most recently the CWA's Diamond Dagger for a writer of an outstanding body of crime fiction, the International Thriller Writers' ThrillerMaster, and the Theakstons Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award.

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    • 3/5
      OK typical Jack Reacher book. I did enjoy this book but some bits annoyed me for instance that he can always tell the time even though he doesnt have a watch. The story is good though Reacher is asked to find a missing wife and Step daughter. The husband is a big time security special ops leader and has various ex forces blokes working for him. Reacher slowly but surely unravels whats going on this leads them to Norfolk in England. Reacher almost gives the exact location away before he realises that it was a fake kidnap he then has to save the day which he manages to do then he disappears into the wilderness. I do enjoy reading Jack Reacher books you always kind of know what to expect even though you dont always see it coming.

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    • 4/5
      My first Jack Reacher novel, but not my last. Lots of action, right from the beginning. I liked the characters, particularly Jack Reacher's character. I also liked all of the twists and turns in the storyline. Some of them were expected, but some were not. Definitely fun to read.
    • 5/5
      Another Jack Reacher novel. Enough said.
    • 3/5
      It was okay, but not as good as most of the Jack Reacher books, since he was SO stupid in it. I figured out what was going on really early and he's normally smart. Jack Reacher is rarely the character you want to smack for not seeing the obvious. Glad most of the books show him as a smarter person.
    • 5/5
      Jack Reacher strikes again. This time he's taken on for a job from a shady employer and he finds himself looking for a kidnapped wife as well as checking his backtrail. Snappy adventure from a dependable writer.
    • 5/5
      fantastic anti hero
    • 4/5
      Reacher is enlisted by a hard-bitten Blackwater style mercenary corporation to find a kidnapper and his captives, a young woman and her eight year old daughter. From the Dakota Hotel in New York City to a farm in the English countryside, this book has danger, thrills, and tension galore. I couldn't wait for opportunities to get back to it.

      As always in the Reacher books, the bad guys are bad. Really bad. And you can't wait for Reacher to deal with them. Permanently.
    • 4/5
      Who would have thought having coffee twice at the same cafe would be a mistake? But it lands Reacher in a convoluted mess of a kidnapping for ransom. Past history seems to be repeating itself, but everything isn't always exactly as it seems....I was a bit surprised to see the ending of this one coming very early on, but even after having spotted the twist, Reacher doesn't disappoint.
    • 5/5
      Just a great gripping crime/ adventure thriller - well drawn characters and blissfully less complex than the Scandinavians, who often seem in danger of losing the plot so keen are they to confuse the reader
    • 3/5
      Another good crime novel from Child, I keep reminding myself of the half-dozen Scandinavian crime writers I've tried and what a difficult time they had doing what someone like Child seems to do effortlessly: write an exciting story, create interesting characters, and make you come back for more.
    • 4/5
      Jack Reacher just happened to be in a cafe during a kidnapping money drop. Edward Lane wants Reacher to find out who took his wife. It's a jumble of maybes here as Reacher tries to find Lane's wife and step-child before it's too late.
    • 5/5
      Couldn't put it down. The hero witnesses a ransom drop and becomes involved in finding the missing wife and stepdaughter of a wealthy man who heads up a military for hire band of ex-soldiers. Jack who was an MP himself recognizes what they are and agrees to help with locating the wife and stepdaughter while in the back of his mind he knows that something is off. He enlists the help of a woman who is former FBI who still has lots of contacts and was involved in the abduction of the man's first wife.
    • 3/5
      Another great Jack Reacher Novel; story starts in New York City ends in England. If you like Lee Child you will enjoy this one too!Reacher is helping a man find his kidnapped wife. It turns out this has happened before with wife #1. Lane wants no police involvement; because his first wife ended up dead. Reacher hooks up with a former FBI agent who is haunted by how things played out when heading the investigation into the kidnapping of wife #1. Toss in some sister loyalty and you have a great read.
    • 5/5
      another standard Reacher story - and a good guy to have in the constant series of crises which arise around him!
    • 5/5
      This was the first Lee Child Jack Reacher novel I read. It immediately got me hooked on the series.
    • 5/5
      This is the first Jack Reacher Ive read, cant wait to read then all. Absolutely hooked
    • 5/5
      Once again, Reacher arrives at an arbritrary destination and trouble follows him.In this tenth episode of the Jack Reacher saga, Reacher is enjoying his coffee at an outdoor restaurant in New York. From his many years as a Military Police Officer, he's fully observant of his surroundings. He spots a man cross his line of vision, get into a Mercedes and drive off.The next night, Reacher's back at the spot when a military looking man with a British accent asks if he noticed anything the night before. Reacher tells him about the man and that he can describe the car. Hearing this, the man requests Reacher to accompany him to see his boss, Edward Lane.Lane lives at the Dakota House. He tells Reacher that his wife, Kate, and her daughter, Jade, have been kidnapped. He states that what Reacher saw the night before was the man with the ransome money leaving the pickup. Lane adds that he was the victim of a kidnapping five years ago. His wife, Anne, was kidnapped and when he went to the police, she was killed. That's his reason for not wanting police involved this time.Even though Lane is surrounded by a group of mercenaries, it's obvious that they don't have investigatory skills. Since Reacher does and because he always helps those in desperate need, he volunteers to help.The investigation proceeds slowly as the kidnappers call and increase their demand. Later, Reacher is able to be on his own. He contacts the FBI agent who was in charge of the first kidnapping. Lauren Pauling, sill feels guilty about Anne's death. However, Reacher feels that he can trust her so they work together to try to solve the case.This is a fast moving, constantly suspenseful story, complete with plot twists, deception and action packed adventure. Reacher, as always, is one of the most courageous, dependable, and resourceful characters in fiction.
    • 5/5
      If you haven't read any of the Reacher books, then this is a good one to start with. As the story opens, we join Reacher as he's doing what he loves best, drinking coffee. Then someone joins him asking him what he saw the night before. That simple question puts Reacher in the middle of something he doesn't want to be in. After a while, he gets involved with some people who were all in the Military, and were special forces. It seems that the leader of this crew has a wife and she's kidnapped. It's up to Reacher to sort out everything and come to a shocking truth that leads to a violent ending. There's just one way for Reacher to solve this, the only way he knows how, the hard way. I don't want to say to much more than that. This is such a great and easy read. The Hard Way has outstanding plot twists and turns. I HIGHLY suggest this, you won't be sorry.
    • 5/5
      Oh... it's the best Reacher novel so far! Nice pacing, unexpected twist, bad guys, good guys, troubled guys... and Reacher was able to fix them all up in the end!No politics, some sex - but it wasn't detailed and only a few pages in total - and an almost believable scenario (well, more believable than some other Reacher books, but it was still a bit over the top). More mystery/suspense in it than some other of Child's books, and a bit less violence. Actually, there is very minimal Reacher violence until late into the story 'cause it's mostly Jack trying to figure things out for the first 2/3 of the book.
    • 5/5
      Another Jack Reacher adventure, read by Dick Hill. Very enjoyable (but not for the faint of heart). I particularly like Dick Hill's interpretation of the Reacher stories. In this one, Reacher is contracted to help solve the kidknapping of Lane's wife. Lane's first wife had been kidnapped and killed, and so the plot thickens.
    • 4/5
      Basic storyline is simple, but told in a wonderfully thrilling way! Good guys turn bad, bad guys turn good and at the end it really doesn't matter at all. Couple nice turns and twists at the end re-build the tension up nicely.
    • 4/5
      This was my first Jack Reacher following friends' recommendations. It is a fast-paced action thriller which carries you along with the plot twists and it is only afterwards you start to think about the holes in the story. This one attracted me as it was partly set in New York City and partly in Norfolk, somewhere I know. The NYC scenes and settings seemed authentic to someone who doesn't know the city and so were the Norfolk ones, albeit mostly not real places. A good read if you don't think about the plot too deeply.
    • 4/5
      Jack is back and though the books are rather formulaic, the formula allows the reader to feel like they know Jack, and in my case love him.
    • 4/5
      While I enjoyed The Hard Way, I didn't find it quite as compelling as some of the more recent Reacher novels; I found myself somewhat disinterested in the resolution of the mystery. That said, while I wasn't exactly surprised by the solution and ending, it wasn't quite what I expected either, so I did enjoy it. This was another one of those books that got better as it went progressed with the early sequences taking a bit too long.
    • 4/5
      Another day, another city. Jack Reacher is in New York enjoying a coffee and sees a man drive away a car. Unusually for him, he returns to the same cafe the next day and gets hired, again unusual for him, to find the car and driver and his employers wife and child - kidnap victims. Ever sucker for a pretty girl, he agrees. All the way along something feels off, and only once in England does he realise what his mistake was - but has he realised in time to save the girl?Punchy as ever, managaing to keep the details that make it interesting without burdening the reader with excess, this is Jack Reacher in as good a form as ever. The descriptions of England were pretty good for someone who's been in the States for a while, though keeping the american terms grates when you know the local words. Pints don't come in mugs or pots either here or in the USA. However this is a minor gripe in a well written thriller.
    • 4/5
      I read a bunch of these series. Sanford, Crais, Lehane, kellerman, Burke, this may be the most consistant. Very thrilling book, very enjoyable.
    • 3/5
      Not one of the better Reacher books. If you're going to read them all, go ahead. Otherwise, pick a different one. The plot is obvious, and the reader is going to figure it out before the characters.
    • 5/5
      Another great Jack Reacher book. I stopped reading/listening to others because they don't compare.
    • 5/5
      A truly palpitating entry of an encapsulating series by Lee Child.
    • 5/5
      Good read like most Reacher books. Looking for my next in the series.