Tripwire (Jack Reacher)

Child, Lee

ISBN 10: 161176193X ISBN 13: 9781611761931

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2013

Synopsis

Settling into a peaceful life in Key West, Reacher's world is turned upside down when a stranger comes looking for him, a man who turns up dead in the Old Town cemetery and who leads him on a perilous trail to New York, where he confronts an alluring woman from his past, and a deadly opponent.

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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

"Brings to mind the knight-errant adventures of John D. McDonald's Travis McGee." --Booklist

Grabs hold with the first page . . . This is pulse-pounding suspense. Arizona Daily Star
A stylistic thriller as complex and disturbing as its hero. Stephen White
A bang-up finale . . . Makes the reader sit back and gasp. The Denver Post

Gives new meaning to what a page-turner should be. Michael Connelly"

"Grabs hold with the first page . . . This is pulse-pounding suspense."--Arizona Daily Star
"A stylistic thriller as complex and disturbing as its hero."--Stephen White
"A bang-up finale . . . Makes the reader sit back and gasp."--The Denver Post

"Gives new meaning to what a page-turner should be."--Michael Connelly

-Grabs hold with the first page . . . This is pulse-pounding suspense.---Arizona Daily Star
-A stylistic thriller as complex and disturbing as its hero.---Stephen White
-A bang-up finale . . . Makes the reader sit back and gasp.---The Denver Post

-Gives new meaning to what a page-turner should be.---Michael Connelly

"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

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 161176193X
• ISBN 13: 9781611761931
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 12