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Lee Child

the Hard way

read from his first Jack Reacher book the Enemy
In the story, chapter 17 is where the story dramatically changes from a mere kidnapper to something else entirely when Reacher meets with Ann's younger sister, who suspects her sister was not kidnapped but was killed by the husband.
It was all a charade, an elaborate homicide.
“Because he understood better than me that reality was over for us. There was really no difference between truth and fantasy for us at that point. They were of absolutely equal value.

the Enemy

A gold oak leaf on the epaulette, the Reacher story gets its prime touches from the author with no room for rest until the end.
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Nobody lives for ever. I'll never know how it turns out for you. I'll never know what happens with your lives. Not in the end. Not even under the best of circumstances. I realized that. Then it didn't seem to matter so much. It will always be an arbitrary date. It will always leave me wanting more

We were alone together in a sea of troubles, some of them shared, some of them private.
94년도와 비슷하네. It gets to be one, a union.

"Life," Joe said. "What a completely weird thing it is. A person lives sixty years, does all kinds of things, knows all kinds of things, feels all kinds of things, and then it's over. Like it never happened at all."


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1. Killing Floor (1997)
2. Die Trying (1998)
3. Tripwire (1999)
4. The Visitor (2000)
5. Echo Burning (2001)
6. Without Fail (2002)
7. Persuader (2003)
8. The Enemy (2004)
9. One Shot (2005)
10. The Hard Way (2006)
11. Bad Luck and Trouble (2007)
12. Nothing To Lose (2008)
13. Gone Tomorrow (2009)
14. 61 Hours (2010)
15. Worth Dying For (2010)
15.5 Second Son (2011)
16. The Affair (2011)
16.5 Deep Down (2012)
17. A Wanted Man (2012)
17.5 High Heat (2013)
18. Never Go Back (2013)
18.5 Not a Drill (2014)
19. Personal (2014)
19.2 Good and Valuable Consideration (2014)
19.5 Small Wars (2015)
20. Make Me (2015)
21. Night School (2014)
21.5 Too Much Time (2018)
22. The Midnight Line (2017)
22.5 The Christmas Scorpion (2018)
23. Past Tense (2018)
23.5 The Fourth Man (2019)
23.6 Cleaning the Gold (2019)
24. Blue Moon (2019)
25. The Sentinel (2020)
26. Better off Dead (2021)
27. No Plan B (2022)
28. The Secret (2023)
The Sentinel
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Better Off Dead
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No Plan B
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(2022)	Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Chronologically, The Enemy should be read first followed by Night School and then The Affair.You can then read the rest of the novels in publication order.

The short story Second Son features Jack Reacher at 13 years old and High Heat has Reacher as 16.

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