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Jack Reacher (book series)
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The Hard Way (novel)
book by Lee Child
The Hard Way is the tenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child, first published in May [1] This book is written in the third person.
Reception
[edit]A review in Library Journal said, "Reacher is humanized by both his mistakesand his relationships with the fiftyish Pauling", while "Tension builds through plot twists to another riveting finish by Child".[1]Publishers Weekly commended "the author's atmospheric descriptions [which] make Manhattan a leading player, with menace lurking at every intersection".[2]
Plot summary
[edit]In a downtown Manhattan coffee shop Jack Reacher watches a man unlock a Mercedes and drive away. 24 hours later, in the same coffeehouse, he's approached, interrogated, and then driven to The Dakota where he meets Edward Lane and five ex-military soldiers, part of Lane's private mercenary army. Lane offers Reacher payment for his eye-witness description of the guy who stole the car; hearing that Reacher is an ex-Army CID investigator, Lane offers to put him on the payroll at $25, a month to help find his wife Kate and as an afterthought, Kate's daughter Jade. The pair, along with the chauffeur Graham Taylor, a British ex-SAS employee, disappeared whil
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Past Tense (novel)
Novel by Lee Child
Past Tense is the twenty-third book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child.[1][2] The book was released on 5 November in the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland by Delacorte Press and Bantam Press. It is written in the third person.
Plot
[edit]While traveling from Maine to San Diego, Jack Reacher takes a detour to the town of Laconia, New Hampshire, to visit his father Stan Reacher's childhood home. He meets Elizabeth Castle, the town clerk, and attorney/historian Carter Carrington, both of whom help him deduce that no one with the name Reacher ever lived in Laconia. Expanding his search, Reacher discovers that his father grew up in Ryantown, an abandoned blue-collar community built around a prosperous tin mill. Stan ran away at the age of seventeen to enlist in the Marines.
At the same time, Shorty Fleck and Patty Sundstrom, two Canadian migrants looking to sell a trove of priceless comic books so they can use the money to settle in Florida, arrive in Laconia after their car breaks down. They take refuge at a local motel, operated by four men: Mark, Peter, Steven, and Robert. Through a combination of lies, gaslighting, and psychological manipulation, the owners trap