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New York Times bestseller Lee Child returns with another highly-charged new novel starring "one of the most popular characters in contemporary thrillers" (Chicago Sun Times). Lee Child's New York Times bestseller One Shot (Delacorte, 6/05), which has been optioned for a major motion picture by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, was hailed by the New York Times as "Pure, escapist gold Not for nothing do reviewers tell readers to disconnect the phone when the latest Reacher knockout comes along." The Enemy (Delacorte, 5/04) was praised as "A fabulously suspenseful prequel Child's best so far" (Kirkus Review, starred review). In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, The Hard Way, ex-military cop Reacher sees more than most people would... and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth - and save two innocent lives - is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way. Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then he'll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance - because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world. On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer's past... and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He's beginning torealize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he's already in way too deep to stop now.