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  • Jack Reacher 10
  • By: Lee Child
  • Narrated by: Kerry Shale
  • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (30 ratings)

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The Hard Way

By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Kerry Shale
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Late at night in a New York cafe, 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, and invincible.
©2006 Lee Child (P)2006 Random House Audiobooks

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Very disappointing

I love these books but this one was weird! Very short and the style wasn't Child I know. The narrator was great for the other characters but awful for Reacher. Something wrong here just not up to standard!

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Bring back Jeff Harding

Jack Reacher can only be played by Jeff Harding. New guy OK but just saying.

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Hero's voice as a Wisper.

This Audiobook is hard to listen to because the voice of the hero is a whispered, so the volume has to be turned up so that you can hear the hero.

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Narrator

having a change of narrators was frustrating to say the least, otherwise a fine book

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Listened to all available Reacher stories. The voices ruined this one for me I am sorry to say

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Not right?!?!

Something seems to be wrong with this, ive been listening to lee childs reacher series from book 1 in order and this one dosent seem to fit in with the others, including the narrator change, in my opinion stick to lee child narrated by jeff harding also the 4 hrs worth is a no go for me

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