The Hard Way by Lee Child

The Hard Way by Lee ChildJack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher's job is to make sure it all turns out right money paid, family safely returned. But Reacher is in the middle of a nasty little war where nothing is simple. What started on a busy New York street explodes three thousand miles away, in the sleepy English countryside. Reacher's going to

then you will have to detach yourself from it and learn how to be just a witness

regardless of parental opposition

which tells the inspiring story of Dr

Piper doesn’t want any distractions

Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007

Isabel has only ever loved two boys

and in so doing imprison our life-energy

provocative poetry

at the heart of the Shattered Plains

comprehend it

Just as the city must contain its growing needs

corruption