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Tripwire (A Jack Reacher novel) (Paperback)

by Lee Child (Author)
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  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Books; New edition edition (3 Feb 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553811851
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553811858
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.6 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 349 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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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.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Reacher at his best, 6 Jul 2008
By Melad (Sheffield) - See all my reviews
This is classic Lee Child, when the Reacher formula was still working at its very best. The serial protagonist is at his peak in this novel, probably the best in the ever expanding list of Reacher stories. The story begins with Ex-military policemen Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand, and we get one of the best descriptions of what Reacher looks like and really thinks in this novel, unlike some of the others were we are left to imagine the big man. 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. He ends up 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.
Child prides himself that, as an Englishman, he writes American thrillers that actually sell well in the US, a rare breed indeed 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. It`s a great formula for thriller lovers, and if you enjoy this Genre, the Harry Bosh books by Connely, Dan shepard stories by Stephen Leather and try the Soft Target trilogy by Conrad Jones.Here's one for that long plane or train journey.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Predictable, but Compelling, Page Turner, 22 Sep 2005
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tripwire (Jack Reacher Novels) (Paperback)
In Tripwire, ex-MP drifter Jack Reacher develops as a character in several interesting ways. Where in Killing Floor and Die Trying Reacher was a Rambo who changes his clothes daily by buying a new set, in Tripwire Reacher takes on more human qualities that make him more appealing. Reacher must come to terms with what he really wants from life and that vulnerability also increases his attractiveness as a character.

If you are like me, you'll root harder for him to succeed than in the earlier two books where the danger and the violence seemed more contrived.

Tripwire also has a very dastardly villain of the sort that everyone loves to hate.

The book's greatest strength is that you enjoy the journey of good overcoming evil. Most action novels fail to put that point across as convincingly as this one does.

The plot itself is very predictable, but for once I didn't mind the lack of true suspense. I wanted to savor the inevitable victory.

As the story opens, Reacher has stopped drifting and has settled down to digging swimming pools by hand in Key West. A PI comes looking for him, and Reacher deflects the search out of habit. The PI soon turns up dead with some unusual crime scene details, and Reacher knows he has to get to the bottom of what's going on. That search leads him to open some new doors into the tenderest connections from his past, and Reacher finds himself thinking about a new way of life.

This book will undoubtedly annoy those who want their Vietnam-related stories to be realistic and balanced. The book will also annoy those who want a lot of suspense in their action books. Finally, the book will annoy those who don't like a tricked-up ending. This one is clearly a little too cute for its own good.

But I came away anxious to read the next entry in the series. I'm off to the library!

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Be prepared for a long night, 6 Jul 2001
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I'm approaching these books in the wrong order. This is my 3rd Reacher novel and I still haven't read Killing Floor. But how can I wait for that when I've got unread Lee Child offerings which contain such pulsating storylines.

In Tripwire, Reacher returns and we learn more about him and the way he ticks. He is a man of certain moral codes - won't steal from the scum of the earth, but will pay a dollar to salve his conscience when pinching somebody's truck.

Child's descriptive text is excellent. The study of Marilyn Stone in her silk dress is immaculate. I was there with her, watching the silk cling to her body at one point, or so I thought. If you forgive one or two leaps of deduction and just enjoy the novel for the gripping story it is, you will not be able to release it from your grasp until you've finished it.

Highly polished, smooth dialogue and descriptions of the US which make you believe you're there. Lee Child is on to a winner with Reacher.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good yarn
Child's writes very taut prose - few adjectives, few adverbs, so his descriptions are dynamic and creative. Reacher is a great character. Read more
Published 6 days ago by JE Moore

5.0 out of 5 stars **Brilliant**
This book was recommended to me as a good book to read. I am not really a book reader but I was glued to this one not missing a page. Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. Powell

5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling
All the Reacher books have so far been total page turners. I have ordered the next 3 and am enjoying every page.
Published 1 month ago by A. M. Drake

4.0 out of 5 stars tripwire
A very good read,amost good as Tom Clancy. Not too highbrowe and easy to follow.
Published 2 months ago by Duncan Clark

5.0 out of 5 stars Men want to be him, women want to be with him!
Excellent Reacher book as usual. Good description of Key West as well, having been there a couple of years ago the description was spot on. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. R. Kaberry

1.0 out of 5 stars bob
got this book and killing floor at the same time and for some reason read it first (out of sequence)how i got to the end of it i don't know. Read more
Published 3 months ago by bob

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read
This is yet another great book by Lee Child. The Jack Reacher character continues to get himself in and out of trouble in style. Read more
Published 3 months ago by A. Manley

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
Lee Child goes from strength to strength with Jack Reacher.
People use the word predictable, but then that's why you read Lee Child; Tough guy hero who always gets the bad... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Stella

1.0 out of 5 stars Very good except......
An excellent thriller, tense, many twists and turns, but Lee Child rests his story on old stereotypes and easy characters. Read more
Published 21 months ago by J. Bruinsma

2.0 out of 5 stars Nowhere near his best...
I think this is the third Lee Child book I've read and it is by far the worst, mainly because it's kind of boring. Read more
Published 23 months ago by S. Barge

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