The Hard Way

Late at night, a New York cafe'. Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china. So he can move on at a moment’s notice. He owns nothing, carries less. He has never met a woman who said no. Or a case he couldn’t solve.

But now Reacher faces a new case so disturbing that the truth eludes him. He has to sweat the details and work the clues. Doing it the hard way. Until what started on a busy New York street explodes three thousand miles away, in the sleepy English countryside. With Reacher striding alone in the shadows. Armed and dangerous.

Reacher, who has long since gained mythical status, is human after all ... This is storytelling of the highest order: lean, laconic, laced with tension.
- Mark Sanderson, Evening Standard

The invincible Reacher is as irresistible as ever.
- Sunday Telegraph

Child is a consummate thriller writer: his prose is trim but descriptive, his plots believable, fresh and positively airtight, and shows himself a master of misdirection.
- Time Out

Lee 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 practitioners.
- Independent

‘Another cracking teeth-chatterer.’
- Daily Mail