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Tripwire (Jack Reacher 03)
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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
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Redoubtable hero Jack Reacher maintains his tough, uncompromising role in Lee Child’s third hard-hitting, action-packed thriller.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Read,
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This review is from: Tripwire: (Jack Reacher 3): A Jack Reacher Novel (Paperback)
This is yet another great book by Lee Child. The Jack Reacher character continues to get himself in and out of trouble in style. It's a tense, action packed book - very difficult to put down - with lots of twists and turns along the way. Tripwire is the 3rd book in the Jack Reacher series, and i've already started reading the 4th one!
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is how 'low brow' thriller writing should be done...,
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This review is from: Tripwire: (Jack Reacher 3): A Jack Reacher Novel (Paperback)
Jack Reacher novels are always pretty good. Child's got a knack for keeping what are essentially quite similar stories fresh and interesting.
Here, however, he turns it up a notch and delivers probably the finest Reacher novel I've read. While the novel is not going to win any awards for great literature, the so called heavyweights like Dan Brown and Michael Reilly could take a leaf out of Lee Child's book when it comes to penning a good thriller. The story begins when a man sent to find Reacher by a woman Jack's never heard of turns up dead behind a motel in Florida with his fingers cut off. Reacher's curiosity is piqued and he journey's to New York to find out why the man had to die, and what it has to do with him. His search brings him face to face with his own past, and with Victor `Hook' Hobie. Hobie is far and away the best villain to feature in any Jack Reacher novel I have read so far. A man with a secret that he will go to any lengths, no matter how brutal or sadistic, to protect. For the first time, you feel that Reacher has met an adversary worthy of the name, and as the book winds towards its climax, it grabs hold of you and won't let you go. An essential read for Child fans and a great book in its own right to keep the Reacher virgin entertained, I honestly can't recommend this book enough.
33 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Near flawless thriller,
This review is from: Tripwire: (Jack Reacher 3): A Jack Reacher Novel (Paperback)
I've read most of Lee Child's thrillers and this is my favourite. The story is compelling, with plenty of twists and mysteries to unravel. The villain is exceptionally threatening. There are plenty of minor characters to identify with, so every reader can think "what would I do if that was happening to me?" I also found Child's tough-guy hero Jack Reacher more rounded and convincing in this book than in eg Killing Floor or Persuader. All in all, a tremendously good read.
Downside: avoid if graphic violence and torture disturb you.
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