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Tripwire: A Jack Reacher Novel
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
by Lee Child
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ISBN/ASIN: 0553811851
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Sales Rank: 542
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| Digging swimming pools in Key West, Florida, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he's ever been. Being invisible has become a habit. 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? |
| Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 4.0/5 | | Discovery: Rating: 5/5 |
| I found this book in a holiday let in France, when I'd finished all my own paperbacks and was desperate for a good read. I was gripped from beginning to end. The hero is sensitive as well as smart and strong, with a keen desire to right wrongs and help the weak. The story kept me up at night, eager for the denouement but reluctant to finish. There is a strong sense of place. Characters are well drawn and convincing and the writing style is lively. An action book that didn't patronise, but treated me as an intelligent reader. Wonderful! I'm sold on Jack Reacher and Lee Child | | A slightly sluggish third novel: Rating: 3/5 |
Given the excellent introduction to the mighty Reacher in `The Killing Floor' and the explosive pace of the un-put-down'able `Die Trying', I was really looking forward to the third in the series.
I was expecting the same non-stop action but the author decided that this was the book in which to provide a bit more depth to his previously slightly one dimensional all-action hero. If I'd read this book first then I would not have been at all disappointed but as it was I found it, by comparison, a bit sluggish. It was still, however, an excellent novel written by a master of the genre and I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series.
| | Worst of the series by far!!!!: Rating: 1/5 |
| I love the Jack Reacher books but this book is by far the worse in the series. It is slow paced and boring. Child makes up for the slow plot by overplaying the love interest and making the lead criminal very violent and totally insane. There is no build up to the 'big ending' and Reacher does not take down as many bad guys as in previous novels and his dark humor is sadly missing! One Shot and the Hard Way are the best in the series. Gone Tomorrow is also excellent. All the books are a 4 out of 5, but Tripwire is rubbish. | | A Jack Reacher Novel - Book 3: Rating: 5/5 |
Jack Reacher delivers a punch to rival any action hero in print, and in Tripwire, Lee Child is back on form with an all out blockbuster that delivers.
In Die Trying - Book 2 - the story was a bit one dimensional. In Tripwire we are back on form with a Machiavellian pulling strings in the background and Jack caught in the middle of the chaos.
Despite hiding out by working hard in Key West Florida, Jack Reacher is pulled back to New York to find answers to the senseless killing of a private detective who was looking for him.
An action triller that keeps you entertained. As good as a David Morrell action thriller such as his clssic First Blood: Rambo.
Time to buy The Visitor - book 4 | | I didn't get it: Rating: 2/5 |
| I didn't get this book. I like thrillers where I can put myself in the protagonist's shoes, suffer with him through the book and eventually win with him/her (why not? I like happy endings). Being a normal guy, I find it easier to sympathize with the protagonist when he is an ordinary guy as well. Well Jack Reacher is no ordinary guy. Gigantically tall and mostruosly fit, he comes from nowhere and has no friends, nor family ties. Highly unreal. He is a tough guy who is not surprised to see people shooting at him for no apparent reason. in other words, he is a comic. And my problem is that I don't like comics. Even his relationship with Jodie - his former mentor's daughter - is so stereotypical....No, I didn't get this book, nor did i enjoy it. I gave it up after 280 pages with no regrets except for the price of the book. Shame, considering that it is not badly written after all. | |
