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The Hard Way | [Lee Child]
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The Hard Way

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  • by Lee Child
  • Narrated by Jeff Harding
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  • LENGTH
    11 hrs and 54 mins
  • RELEASE DATE
    12-10-09
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Publisher's Summary

Late at night in a New York café army-cop-turned-drifter Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china, so that he can move on at a moment’s notice.

He owns nothing, carries less, has never encountered a female colleague he can’t bed, or a case he can’t solve.

But now Reacher is confronted by a situation so disturbing and deceptive that the truth eludes him.

Has he painted targets on the good guys’ backs?

So Reacher starts over at square one. He sweats the details and works the clues. As they used to say back in the service, he’s 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. Invincible.

©2006 Lee Child (P)2009 Random House Audiobooks

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    Lynda Gingin, Australia 04-28-11
    Lynda Gingin, Australia 04-28-11 Member Since 2010

    Avid audio book listener who has recently become a Kindle addict!!

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    "Excellent - couldn't put it 'down'."

    I admit I am biased and am an admirer of Jeff Harding as a narrator; this is my fourth Jack Reacher novel and I loved loved loved it. I was subconsciously expecting many things as the story unfolded however Lee Child managed to put enough subtle twists and turns that created expectations that still turned out to be wrong (on my part!) Jeff Harding did an outstanding job with accents & voice inflections and female voices. I highly recommend this to any Lee Child fan as I couldn't put this down - I listened on the treadmill, in the car (stuck the Wiggles on so the children wouldn't talk to me) - even did my accounts with it on. Brilliant.

    2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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    Linda Underberg, South Africa 05-04-13
    Linda Underberg, South Africa 05-04-13 Member Since 2013
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    "Good beginning but implausible ending"

    I loved the first half but found the second part so implausible. Lee Child really needs to take into account that most people have cellphones. Jeff Harding is a great narrator, but I found this Jack Reacher story disappointing.

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    valerie Australia 09-19-12
    valerie Australia 09-19-12 Member Since 2011
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    "Good Story, Excellent Narration"

    I've nothing much to add about the plot or character, and if you like Lee Child in general then this one won't disappoint. But I think this is the first Lee Child book I've listened to when I realised just how talented a narrator Jeff Harding is. His voice is quite distinctive and in earlier narrations I didn't warm to it 100%, but now that I am more accustomed to it I am starting to appreciate his abilities. He does an excellent job of the various accents required by this book, to the extent of providing credible regionally distinct British English accents as well as the more common (in Child) American accents. Unlike rather many others, Harding doesn't sound like an American doing a fake British accent, and I wanted to hug him for it. The hardest requirement for a male narrator in this book is a husky voiced female, and even that one wasn't bad. So I'd say that Harding brought this from a 4 to a 5 star book for me.

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    07-31-12 Member Since 2008
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    "Gripping -One of his best"
    Any additional comments?

    Quite gritty and gruesome in parts.
    Lee Child in his previous books was starting to get a bit stale,
    however in this book he seems to have got his inspiration from Martina Cole rather than Sandra Brown.About time.
    Well worth using a credit.

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