false 383028 13 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. 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. 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. The only way to find the truth, as they used to say back in the service, is to do it the hard way. So Reacher starts over at square one. He sweats the details and works the clues. What started in NYC explodes three thousand miles away in the sleepy English countryside with Reacher striding alone in the shadows, armed and dangerous, and invincible. 584889 16 5 2006 The Hard Way (Jack Reacher Series, #10) total:1975|5:529|4:922|3:446|2:65|1:13| 1975 7814 2527 184 5 0 false false Sat Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 08 10:00:39 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 10:01:04 -0800 2009
Jack Reacher known as the best man-hunter in the world ends up helping Edward Lane, a well-paid mercenary, whose wife and stepdaughter have been kidnapped. Initially Reacher volunteers to help, as the case develops, things prove not to be what they seem. Alarm bells ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 18:34:53 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 18:47:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Dec 26 17:34:20 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 09:15:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Oct 25 11:46:09 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 11:46:43 -0700 2009 SETTING: UK
SERIES: #10 of 10
RATING: 3.25
WHY: This is a favorite series of mine, but this entry just did not work for me. Reacher is a completely flat character in this one, feels robotic in many respects, a robot who is a finely tuned k...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:39:29 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:39:29 -0800 2009 Lee Child has become one of the most popular writers in a genre known for the hard-earned loyalty of its readers. Fortunately, his character Jack Reacher, "the literary heir to Mike Hammer, Sir Lancelot and, perhaps, Jack Paladin" (Denver Post), shows no signs of cooling off. Critics appl...

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Jack Reacher is the new millenium version of Shell Scott, Richard Prather's hard boiled private eye of the 50's and 60's. Where Shell Scott drove a Cadillac convertible and seduced bea...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 17:20:10 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 08:11:17 -0700 2008 “Reacher, alone in the dark. Armed and dangerous. Invincible.”

My Dad has been reading the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child for a couple years now. I’m very much, well I think I should read them in order with him always telling me it’s so not necessary. So he left The Hard Way at o...more...]]>