Article: BOOKS AT A GLANCE.(Spotlight)

Byline: Peter Mergendahl, Mark Graham, Jennifer Miller & Joan

Hinkemeyer, Special to the News

THRILLERS

The Hard Way

By Lee Child (Delacorte Press, $25). Grade: A

You can usually figure out what's going to happen in a Lee Child novel in the first quarter of the book, but getting to the conclusion is all the fun. And then again, you just might not know what's going to happen.

This is Child's tenth novel starring Jack Reacher, an ex-military policeman who has owned nothing but the clothes on his back, a toothbrush and a pocket comb for the past decade. After so many Reacher stories, Child might have tried his hand at ...

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