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Tripwire (Jack Reacher #3)
by
Lee Child
Reacher's anonymity in Florida is shattered by an investigator who's come looking for him. But hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Retracing the PI's trail back to New York, Reacher's compelled to find out who was looking for him and why. He never expected the reasons to be so personal-and twisted.
Paperback, 432 pages
Published
May 29th 2007
by Jove
(first published June 28th 1999)
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This isn't a review, because I just started reading this book, but I couldn't help sharing my irritation.
I like Lee Child's storytelling skills, and Jack Reacher is a fun character to read about.
Unfortunately, his prose is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Most irritating of all, it's not irredeemably bad, it just needs a good editor. Who is Lee Child's editor? Does he even have one?
For instance:
"Are you Jack Reacher?" the guy asked for t...more
I like Lee Child's storytelling skills, and Jack Reacher is a fun character to read about.
Unfortunately, his prose is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Most irritating of all, it's not irredeemably bad, it just needs a good editor. Who is Lee Child's editor? Does he even have one?
For instance:
"Are you Jack Reacher?" the guy asked for t...more
In Tripwire, the third book in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, Reacher is in Key West digging swimming pools - with a shovel. The job is suiting him just fine until a New York City private detective comes looking for Reacher on behalf of a woman named Mrs. Jacob. The fact that he's never heard of Mrs. Jacob is bothersome enough, but when the private investigator ends up dead, Reacher has to find out why.
When Reacher travels to New York City he discovers that Mrs. Jacob is actually J...more
When Reacher travels to New York City he discovers that Mrs. Jacob is actually J...more
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What I like about the Jack Reacher series is that the women are portrayed as strong individuals who dont need a man to rescue them. This is made more rewarding when invariably Jack gets many opportunities to shine despite this. The love interest is believable and the back story a lovely touch, however we know jack is a wandering nomad and any longterm relationship is unlikeable whether they survive or not!
Trip Wire sees jack digging pools by hand in the sunny Keys, lots of detail her...more
Trip Wire sees jack digging pools by hand in the sunny Keys, lots of detail her...more
Jack Reacher is working in the Florida Keys when a private detective comes looking for him, gets killed and then Jack ends up in New York unraveling a mystery.
I've come to expect the formula of these books and have no problem with them because I find the books entertaining. What I don't like is that every character, regardless of where they come form or their background, uses "right" and "ok" all the time, in the same fashion. I accepted in the first book that it was jus...more
I've come to expect the formula of these books and have no problem with them because I find the books entertaining. What I don't like is that every character, regardless of where they come form or their background, uses "right" and "ok" all the time, in the same fashion. I accepted in the first book that it was jus...more
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Fun escape. Tough, smart, macho man. You need to suspend disbelief a little.
STORY BRIEF:
A private detective comes to Florida looking for Reacher. He is killed by two thugs who are also looking for Reacher. Reacher goes to New York to find out who wanted him and why. He learns his close friend Garber wanted his help to find out what happened to a missing soldier in Vietnam. Garber recently died. His daughter Jody helps Reacher with this. A vicious one-armed man is tortur...more
STORY BRIEF:
A private detective comes to Florida looking for Reacher. He is killed by two thugs who are also looking for Reacher. Reacher goes to New York to find out who wanted him and why. He learns his close friend Garber wanted his help to find out what happened to a missing soldier in Vietnam. Garber recently died. His daughter Jody helps Reacher with this. A vicious one-armed man is tortur...more
The best one yet. Now this can go 1 of 2 ways, or the more common now-a-days 3rd direction. 1. Lee Child's books in this series keep getting better and better and being I'm late to the show I already know there a bunch to go. So obviously success has been had but is it the right kind. Could be they beat a dead horse to death, and then killed it again by putting out more books. 2. The good kind, as in the books are awesome through and through and more got written. Then there is the 3rd option whi...more
Where do I start? This book was so bad! The Reacher series just keeps getting worse and worse. I realize that Child's audience is probabaly a larger % of males than females, but come on! Reacher is such a shallow guy. It's really disappointing. What makes him so appealing is that he's always saves the day. He's who you want on your side when you're in trouble.
But when Reacher says he loves Jodie. He's a wanderer that doesn't like to be 'tied down'. He hooks up with a different...more
But when Reacher says he loves Jodie. He's a wanderer that doesn't like to be 'tied down'. He hooks up with a different...more
'He had read stuff the NYPD's medical people were putting about concerning diet and exercise.' That quoted sentence is not preceded with a comment about an NYPD journal, missive, or any other piece of writing. If it had been, I would find the sentence more palatable, but I would still think it was a poorly worded idea. As it was, it was preceded with a comment about how the police officer had decided to become a healthier person.
'....were putting about....'. What a poorly constr...more
'....were putting about....'. What a poorly constr...more
This Jack Reacher was set only a few years after Reacher has gotten out of the military and he is still deciding just what he is going to do with his life. I wasn't as enthralled with this story even though it is a very good action thriller. I think perhaps it is because there wasn't as much of Reacher and too much of the bad guy, Hook Hobie. I was enjoyed the Vietnam connection, and I particularly liked one of the minor characters, Marilyn. Greg told me I would like her and he was right. Marily...more
Lee Child does a professional job in the plotting of this thriller.
Jack Reacher finds that a woman is looking for him and he gets to her home just as friends were paying their last respects to the woman's father, Gen. Gerber. The General had died recently and was a father figure to Reacher.
Reacher is able to save the general's daughter, Jodie from two men who were sent to kill her. Jodie is an attorney in New York.
In New York, Hook Hobie is behind the attempt...more
Jack Reacher finds that a woman is looking for him and he gets to her home just as friends were paying their last respects to the woman's father, Gen. Gerber. The General had died recently and was a father figure to Reacher.
Reacher is able to save the general's daughter, Jodie from two men who were sent to kill her. Jodie is an attorney in New York.
In New York, Hook Hobie is behind the attempt...more
Suspenseful Reacher thriller with horrible villain !
Child's third Jack Reacher novel, featuring our ex-MP investigator hero who likes to travel around anonymously, serves up more of the action-packed intrigue we have come to expect from the first two entries in this fine series. Reacher is digging pools in Key West, with a part-time strip-club bouncer job, when a New York PI comes looking for him. Refusing to reveal his identity, Reacher is soon sorry when the man turns up dead a few...more
Child's third Jack Reacher novel, featuring our ex-MP investigator hero who likes to travel around anonymously, serves up more of the action-packed intrigue we have come to expect from the first two entries in this fine series. Reacher is digging pools in Key West, with a part-time strip-club bouncer job, when a New York PI comes looking for him. Refusing to reveal his identity, Reacher is soon sorry when the man turns up dead a few...more
Plot Summary: Jack Reacher is a former military policeman living “off the grid” in the Florida Keys. Digging swimming pools by day and bouncing at a local strip club by night, Reacher’s reclusive lifestyle is interrupted when a private investigator named Costello comes looking for him and is soon after discovered beaten to death with his fingertips removed. Feeling responsible, Reacher flies to New York City to track down Costello’s employer whom he discovers was his recently deceased mentor, ...more
Lee Child- Tripwire (Jove Books 2009) 4.5 Stars
Jack Reacher is continuing to wander the United States, enjoying being just a part of the crowd. Out of nowhere comes a private detective asking around for a Jack Reacher and suddenly Jack Reacher is being sought by a couple of thugs who killed the private detective. Now Reacher needs to find out just where the detective came from and why the man’s client wants him. The answer will shock him and send him spiralling into a dangerous myste...more
Jack Reacher is continuing to wander the United States, enjoying being just a part of the crowd. Out of nowhere comes a private detective asking around for a Jack Reacher and suddenly Jack Reacher is being sought by a couple of thugs who killed the private detective. Now Reacher needs to find out just where the detective came from and why the man’s client wants him. The answer will shock him and send him spiralling into a dangerous myste...more
Jack Reacher returns in this his third outing as the enigmatic, no-nonsense maverick courtesy of bestselling author Lee Child. His first two books Killing Floor and Die Trying were sensational hits introducing the hero to the masses on both sides of the pond – Tripwire is no different.
Reacher, an ex-military policemen, is currently held up in Key West digging swimming pools by day and working as a security guard by night in a small strip joint – it’s a no-nonsense lifestyle that suits ...more
Reacher, an ex-military policemen, is currently held up in Key West digging swimming pools by day and working as a security guard by night in a small strip joint – it’s a no-nonsense lifestyle that suits ...more
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Tripwire is a thrilling mystery. Okay, I liked it because I figured it out fairly early-- but that's because Child gave me the right clues and the red herrings offered were fairly obvious.
A private detective comes looking for Reacher, who is living as a drifter in Florida. He talks to Reacher, but Reacher refuses to reveal his identity. Then the detective is killed in a gruesome manner and Reacher begins backtracking to find out what is going on. He uncovers a mystery that reach...more
A private detective comes looking for Reacher, who is living as a drifter in Florida. He talks to Reacher, but Reacher refuses to reveal his identity. Then the detective is killed in a gruesome manner and Reacher begins backtracking to find out what is going on. He uncovers a mystery that reach...more
Though I don't usually mind the Reacher formula, this novel (an earlier one, I guess) didn't click with me. Reacher is doing manual labor in Florida when a private detective comes looking for him. The private detective ends up dead and Reacher goes looking for the person who hired him. This leads him back to a past love and to couple looking for their son, who is MIA in Vietnam. There's a lot more to the plot than that but it makes me tired just thinking about it.
I got way bore...more
I got way bore...more
An early book in the Jack Reacher series this book shows both author and character still developing. Overall, I found this book had too much introspection and description not enough plot/action. It's fine for books to be moody and have their character dwelling on deep thoughts, but not Jack Reacher. His thoughts are trivial and boring. He's appealing as an archetype action hero. I don't really care if he's worried about the possibility of owning a house. I want to see him outthink the bad ...more
This is a book in a series my girlfriend loves and wanted me to try. I tried. I didn't care for it. The author takes forever to get to the point of things. His main character, Jack Reacher, is another in the long line of impossibly quick thinking and heroic men of action that have all the depth of a soup spoon. The villain, straight from central casting, has a burned face and a hook for a hand. It would be hard to get any more cliche'. And the writing is bad in style as well as form. I got tired...more
This is the fourth Lee Child book I've read, and I have to say I enjoyed this one the least. The plot just never seemed to gel for me, and I found myself nitpicking at the book all the way through. For instance, Child keeps repeating certain lines in slightly different context later on in the page. That device works well in a villanelle, but this is just a potboiler. Child seems to realize this midway through the book and stops doing it. Also, while Jack Reacher is an American character, he...more
Mannhattan, KS to Denver drive, picked up a used copy of the 3 hr abridged audio CD version to keep me busy.
So over the top it's funny at times, and the reader's attempt at the female voice is cringe worthy. Why is this guy so hugely popular now? It is interesting to listen to a book w/ scenes in the WTC. The action scenes are so full, and quickly read, they are hard to stay w/ - and the sex scenes are, well laughable. As is Child trying to give Reacher a memorable tag, "Here's a d...more
So over the top it's funny at times, and the reader's attempt at the female voice is cringe worthy. Why is this guy so hugely popular now? It is interesting to listen to a book w/ scenes in the WTC. The action scenes are so full, and quickly read, they are hard to stay w/ - and the sex scenes are, well laughable. As is Child trying to give Reacher a memorable tag, "Here's a d...more
I enjoy Lee Child's books about Jack Reacher primarily because of Child's plots which are fast moving, action packed, and end with a surprise twist. And I suppose that I am envious of Reacher's nomadic lifestyle in which he owns nothing, even to the point of buying new clothes on a regular basis rather than being responsible for washing and carrying luggage, and thus nothing owns him. The beginning of this story finds Reacher in Miami digging swimming pools by hand,which further develops his mu...more
This was such an improvement over "Die Trying." Oh there is lots and lots and lots about boy toys, guns, cars, etc., but there is a much better plot about an investigator who comes searching for Reacher, having been hired by some people Reacher has never heard of. Following the murder of the investigator, Reacher ends up partnering with an old friend to find out, first, why he was being sought in the first place, and then they work together to find a soldier missing in action in Viet...more
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This is the third Lee Child book I’ve read. Jack Reacher reminds me of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch (a favorite). Reacher meets an extraordinary woman each book (who find him equally extraordinary) and he can overcome any situation (even bullets to the chest) which seems farfetched, but I still enjoyed the read (I am not expecting great literature/prose when I read a mystery, not to say it isn’t done in the genre, but I’m just looking to be entertained). His villains are cruel and the minor ch...more
Reacher's chronicles had always full with action, guns and fights and blood... but this book bring everything to the next level. I'm a woman with a delicate taste, but somehow I always love all of Reacher's adventure (I read nothing to lose, gone tomorrow, running blind, the hard way, persuader, and of course killing floor), but I really can't enjoy this particular title. The reason is that many of the scenes are too sadistic and inhuman and all of that are repeated and prolonged.. In Gone Tomor...more
Even though I was a bit reluctant to start reading this book, some good reviews drove me to read this book.
To start off, this book was quite a journey to read, the way author makes us travel through the characters is simply laudable. He has wonderfully hemstitched the characters together, driving our curiosity high, leaving us desperate to know the connections between the characters.
The notable technique the author uses to reveal the secrets is simply superb,he neither gives more clues...more
To start off, this book was quite a journey to read, the way author makes us travel through the characters is simply laudable. He has wonderfully hemstitched the characters together, driving our curiosity high, leaving us desperate to know the connections between the characters.
The notable technique the author uses to reveal the secrets is simply superb,he neither gives more clues...more
I tried, I really did. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen, something important. Something other than characters moving around completing unimportant tasks. It never did, and I got tired of waiting. A novel has to draw you in from the start, and the promise of possible interesting discoveries around page 300 is not enough. I get that the three sets of characters in this are some how connected, and that something is going on that has the potential to be interesting, but I simply ca...more
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Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation ...more
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