TY - BOOK AU - Child,Lee TI - The hard way T2 - Jack Reacher SN - 9780593055007 U1 - 813/.54 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Delacorte Press KW - Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Ex-police officers KW - Mercenary troops KW - Kidnapping KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Suspense fiction N2 - Jack Reacher was alone, 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{u2019}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{u2019}s past{u2026}and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He{u2019}s beginning to realise that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he{u2019}s already in way too deep to stop now. ER -