Sunday 2 June 2013

The Hard Way (a Jack Reacher novel) by author Lee Child

Book: The Hard Way  (Jack Reacher Novel)
Author: Lee Child (www.jackreacher.co.uk )
Publisher: Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )
ISBN: 978-0-553-81587-0

The hero of this series is Jack Reacher. Lets get it straight at the start of the review. He is a man’s hero and a woman’s dream man. No nonsense, less emotions, less of mushy wooshy stuff. Tough exterior, good looking in a rugged way. Drifter, who doesn’t have any strings, nor any loose ends. Retired trained Military police, or in his own words: the man who keeps trained killing machines in check and order. Absolute expert in weapons and martial arts. Doesn’t fight often, but when he fights you have to call in the insurance people…. for the place and the people. Do I have your attention?

Jack Reacher is sitting in a New York cafe sipping a coffee. He knows he is being shadowed. But the feeling is not new to him. And he awaits for the hunter to approach him.

The hunter does. But what surprises Jack that it is an appeal to help locate a kidnapped wife and her child. And the one making the appeal, the hunter, himself is a n ex British Army soldier and so is his entire team and he himself runs a security agency.

Now this is an intriguing case. Jack has to sweat the details and work the clues. But it has to be done the hard way.

What starts on the busy streets of New York explodes into a battle for love and life in the sleepish English Countryside.  And there is reacher amidst this, armed and dangerous.

A must buy and a must read. 

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