Posted by RAD on February 05, 2010 at 14:58:18:
I'm fairly new to this message board so maybe I'm the last person to know this. However I recently found a copy of "The Hard Way" in a 2006 Reader's Digest "Select Editions." (We used to call these Reader's Digest Condensed Books. I guess they decided that old name was offensive or something. Or just not "special" enough?)
It's been a while since I read "The Hard Way," but they seem to tell the story fairly well in 172 pages. It seems pretty sacrilegious to mess with Child's prose like this, but the story still works.
In addition, the book includes a short kind of fluff version of a biography of Lee Child. I didn't learn much from that except that Child drives a supercharged Jaguar and dislikes remaindered books (as if that would be a problem for him!).
According to this little blurb thing, Child likes to read books by Alafair Burke,Harlan Coben, Joseph Kanon and Michael Connelly.
I found this book in a little book swap we have in our neighborhood. Does this make me a completist?