Book info

• Title The Hard Way
• Author Lee Child
• Year 2006
• Genre Thriller

Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher's job is to make sure it all turns out right - money paid, family safely returned. But Reacher is in the middle of a nasty little war where nothing is simple. What started on a busy New York street explodes three thousand miles away, in the sleepy English countryside. Reacher's going to have to do this one the hard way.

Thoughts

Jack Reacher gets drawn into another criminal enterprise, this time by happening to be in a cafe at the wrong (right?) time. It’s a kidnapping that isn’t what it seems and Reacher has to go sort of undercover, or perhaps double agent, to try and get to the bottom of what is going on. I quite enjoyed their foray into London and Norfolk for the big showdown, fun to see this described through somewhat sheltered US former military eyes. Another very solid book in the Reacher canon.

Rating: 4 / 5