In this the 10th thriller starring Jack Reacher, he visits the UK for the first time (London and Norfolk)All Lee Child's recent books have reached number one on both the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller lists.Jack Reacher film rights sold to Paramount.Phenomenal year-on-year backlist sales increase for Jack Reacher novels, of which this is the 10th: Lee Child is now the UK's top selling backlist thriller writer.A Jack Reacher thriller is sold somewhere in the world every 20 seconds: Lee Child's worldwide sales now top 32 million copies. He is translated into over 40 languages.
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. Lee is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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.
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Hard Way is the 10th in the series.
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Reacher, who has long since gained
mythical status, is human after all ... This is storytelling of the highest order:
lean, laconic, laced with tensionThe
invincible Reacher is as
irresistible as everChild is a
consummate thriller writer: his prose is trim but descriptive, his plots believable, fresh and positively
airtight, and shows himself a
master of misdirectionLee Child is often mistaken for a US writer, so
skilfully and enthusiastically has he embraced the idiom of the American thriller ... One of the genre's
finest practitionersAnother
cracking teeth-
chatterer