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The Hard Way (2006)

by Lee Child

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Series: Jack Reacher (10)

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world. On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employer's past . . . and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows 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. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will.… (more)
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A Jack Reacher novel. A former military operative who works freelance and is unusually capable of solving cases involving other operatives. Wife goes missing and presumably kidnapped. Good read, but a bit implausible.
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
(2006)An apparent kidnapping of a military mercinary's wife and child draws Reacher in by accident as he is a witness to the ?crime?. Actually it turns out that the wife and her lover have faked the kidnapping so that she can be free from her psycho husband. Comes to a head as the husband and his goon squad descend on a farm in England where the new couple are hiding out. As usual, Reacher manages to take out the leader and 7 baddies without any fuss or muss. Despite lacking credibility this is as always a good read.KIRKUS REVIEWIn this slick, swift, sexy thriller, it's Jack Reacher, the thinking man's Rambo, against a band of hand-picked, combat-hardened, armed-to-the-teeth, ex?special services guys, but, hey, there are only eight of them.We're talking Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, Green Beret, British SAS and the like, all now free from their savage services but never from their training. Which is to render people dead without wasted motion or mercy. They're commanded by an ex?U.S. Army colonel who has formed these wacko killers into a group called Operational Security Consultants (read mercenaries), and who may be considerably off-kilter himself. Reacher comes into contact with them all by happenstance. Sitting in a favorite caf?, sipping espresso, he notices something odd about a certain parked car¥and is noticed noticing. What he's seen, it turns out, is a car full of ransom money. It belongs to ex-Colonel Edward Lane, whose wife and step-childÂ¥Kate and JadeÂ¥have been kidnapped. In Reacher's world, however, it's a truism that kidnappings are not always what they appear. Kate, Reacher soon learns, is not Lane's first wife. Nor is she his first wife to be kidnapped. Reacher learns this from a young woman with vengeance on her mind. For four years, Patti Joseph, the first Mrs. Lane's sister, has kept Lane under personal surveillance, convinced that he murdered her sister, intent on making him pay for it. From private eye Lauren PaulingÂ¥green-eyed and elegantÂ¥Reacher learns more about Lane, none of it redeeming. In and out of bed, Reacher and Pauling form an effective team, mounting a search-and-destroy operation that eventually takes them across the Atlantic to what amounts to an English O.K. Corral.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
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! ( )
  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
Reacher always seems to get in trouble--this is the tenth episode of trouble. This time, he's right in the nest of bad guys and eventually dopes out the right thing to do and does it. There are only a few characters, so it's easy to follow who's who. There's one scene, in the middle of the novel, that's too gruesome for words. But, I'm off for #11 next month. ( )
  buffalogr | May 11, 2023 |
Another great Reacher... I figured out parts, maybe because I'm becoming a more educated Reacher reader, or this one was a little more predictable, I'm not sure. Great read through and through! ( )
  MrMet | Apr 28, 2023 |
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Child, Leeprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Abergel, FrédéricTraductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bellis, AndersTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bergner, WulfÜbersetzersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pott, JanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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For Katie and Jess:
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Jack Reacher ordered espresso, double, no peel, no cube, foam cup, no china, and before it arrived at his table he saw a man's life change forever.
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Please do not combine Lee Child's 13th Jack Reacher novel, Gone Tomorrow with his 10th Jack Reacher novel, The Hard Way. The ISBN 376450238X is used for both Gone Tomorrow and for Way Out, the German translation of The Hard Way. Thank you.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world. On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employer's past . . . and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows 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. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will.

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