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Lee Child
(Dell; $25)
The newest Jack Reacher installment is one of the best. While Child's is generous enough with the reader to let them figure out some twists and turns, he reserves the best for the last and just when you think he's turned the tightest turn he can ... there's just a little more to squeeze out.
Nothing Reacher ever does is straight forward or easy and there's just nothing that he does in The Hard Way that leaves the reader saying "smooth move ..." It's more often that the reader is wondering why someone would choose to take the most brute force, in your face, hardest way possible to get from point A to point B.
This time, Reacher becomes sucked into the world of Edward Lane, head of a band of soldiers-for-hire, who's wife and child have been kidnapped in the same manner that his recently passed away ex-wife disappeared. Lane is so distraught that Ransom has no choice but to join in the hunt and aggressively pursue the chilly clues in a vicious cat-and-mouse game. If you're not a Child fan -- this is a good book to initiate with!
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