Tripwire: (Jack Reacher 3): A Jack Reacher Novel [Paperback]

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

Redoubtable hero Jack Reacher maintains his tough, uncompromising role in Lee Child’s third hard-hitting, action-packed thriller.

Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, Florida, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he’s ever been.A local girl says he looks like a condom filled with walnuts.Being invisible has become a habit.He doesn’t want to be found.

So when a private detective comes nosing around and asking questions, Reacher is not pleased.Especially when he later finds the guy dead. With his fingertips sliced off.Why was he so determined to find him?What does the vicious Wall Street honcho Hook Hobie have to do with it?And what about the reappearance of a woman from Reacher’s own troubled past?

Tripwire is a taut, nailbiting adventure which once again stars Lee Child’s irresistible hero, the maverick former military policeman Jack Reacher.

Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, Florida, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he’s ever been. A local girl says he looks like a condom filled with walnuts. Being invisible has become a habit. He doesn’t want to be found.

So when a private detective comes nosing around and asking questions, Reacher is not pleased. Especially when he later finds the guy dead. With his fingertips sliced off. Why was he so determined to find him? What does the vicious Wall Street honcho Hook Hobie have to do with it? And what about the reappearance of a woman from Reacher’s own troubled past?

LEE CHILD is British, but after he was made redundant from his job in television, he moved with his family from Cumbria to the United States to start a new career as a writer of American thrillers. He now divides his time between France and New York. All his novels feature the maverick Jack Reacher, and all have been international bestsellers.