The Hard Way cover art

The Hard Way

The heart-stopping Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author

 Preview
This Season's Biggest Deal

$0.99/mo for 3 months + $20 Audible bonus voucher

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.
Get this deal
Offer ends on 28 December, 2026.
More purchase options

The Hard Way

By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Kerry Shale
Get this deal

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 28 December, 2026. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $7.62

Buy Now for $7.62

This Season's Biggest Deal | $0.99/mo for 3 months + $20 Audible bonus

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo. after 3 months - terms apply.
Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

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 Penguin Audio

 Action & Adventure Crime Thrillers Espionage Modern Detectives Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Police Procedurals Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense
All stars
Most relevant
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!

Very disappointing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great story just enough information and not too much. Well done to Lee Child a great writer

The hard way

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Jack Reacher can only be played by Jeff Harding. New guy OK but just saying.

Bring back Jeff Harding

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
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.

Hero's voice as a Wisper.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
having a change of narrators was frustrating to say the least, otherwise a fine book

Narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.