Tripwire (Jack Reacher) - Softcover

Child, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425264394 ISBN 13: 9780425264393

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 2012

Synopsis

Jack Reacher hunts the hunter in the third novel in Lee Child's New York Times bestselling series.

Ex military policeman Jack Reacher is enjoying the lazy anonymity of Key West when a stranger shows up asking for him. He's got a lot of questions. Reacher does too, especially after the guy turns up dead. The answers lead Reacher on a cold trail back to New York, to the tenuous confidence of an alluring woman, and the dangerous corners of his own past.

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Review:

Ex-military policemen Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not best pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him, but when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realises it is time to move on. Soon (as in Child's two previous excellent thrillers Die Trying and Killing Floor) Reacher is up to his neck in lethal trouble involving a vicious Wall Street manipulator, a mysterious woman (of course) and the livelihood of a whole community. Even the fate of soldiers missing in action in Vietnam is stirred into the brew. But this is not a book by one of the new breed of US thriller writers: Child prides himself that, as an Englishman, he writes American thrillers that are utterly convincing in milieu and toughness of action, without a trace of English sensibility. This new one is no exception-- every bit as lean and compulsive as its predecessors, it also builds on the freshest aspect of those books: Reacher may be a tough, epic hero, but he always remains human and vulnerable. Here's one for that long plane or train journey.

--Barry Forshaw

Review:

"Child grabs hold with the first page and won't let go until the finish. This is pulse-pounding suspense, and Child hardly misses a beat."--The Arizona Daily Star

"Good thrillers exist in a class of their own. The point of such a book is total escape and Tripwire fills the bill. A bang-up finale which makes the reader sit back and gasp with both wonder and understanding."--The Denver Post

"Not only bang-on suspense but an insightful look into how humans work."--Houston Chronicle

"A stylish thriller as complex and disturbing as its hero."--Stephen White

"A tightly-drawn and swift thriller that gives new meaning to what a page-turner should be."--Michael Connelly

"Page for page, there's probably more fisticuffs in a Lee Child thriller than anywhere else."--Chicago Tribune

"When you put a good villain together with a great hero like Jack Reacher...the result is a thriller good to the last drop. (Child) does a great job of balancing good and evil, and certainly Hobie ranks up there with some of the most memorable villains."--The Orlando Sentinel

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0425264394
• ISBN 13: 9780425264393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 401