The Hard Way

in the Jack Reacher series have sold in forty-three nations in twenty-nine languages. Child, a native of England and former television writer, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his eleventh Jack Reacher thriller,
Bad Luck and Trouble
. Visit our website at www.bantamdell.com . Visit the author’s website at www.LeeChild.com .

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THE HARD WAY
    A Delacorte Press Book / May 2006

    Published by
    Bantam Dell
    A Division of Random House, Inc.
    New York, New York

    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

    All rights reserved
    Copyright © 2006 by Lee Child

    Delacorte Press is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Child, Lee.
    The hard way : a Jack Reacher novel / Lee Child.
    p. cm.
    eISBN-13: 978-0-440-33605-1
    eISBN-10: 0-440-33605-8
    1. Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Ex-police officers—Fiction. 3. Mercenary troops— Fiction. 4. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.5. Kidnapping—Fiction. I. Title.
    PS3553.H4838H37 2006
    813'.54—dc22
    2005051946

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