Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3) (Soundings S., #1676)

by Lee Child

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

• ISBN10: 0593043952
• ISBN13: 9780593043950
• Publish Date: 15 April 1999
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 9 October 2014
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Bantam Press
• Format: Paperback (UK Trade)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[Sarah Says]

This book grabbed me that’s for sure, I didn’t want to put it down.
This book has all the fast paced page turning action and thrilling mystery of the other Reacher novels I’ve read, but also you get to see the more loving side of Reacher through his relationship with Jodie.
I would like to think he sticks with Jodie, but I know from reading later penned Reacher books that she’s nowhere to be found, maybe later I’ll come across another book that will tell me what happened to her and General Garber’s house.
I really like how with Lee Child we get a running account of all the big players in the story and how they always all come together at the end somehow. I always find myself trying to guess the puzzle, then he gives you another piece and you’ve got to guess again. Mr Child and his Jack Reacher always keep you guessing.
Four out of five stars for another enthralling Reacher investigation.

[Stephanie]

Jack Reacher is bequeathed a mission to discover what happened to a soldier in America’s most disorganized and longest war. Jack must dig through years of government red tape to find out what happened to the elderly Hobbes’ son. He was never declared dead and his name is not on the memorial wall. All the Hobbes want is to know what happened to their boy. No one seems to know and those who should know aren’t talking. The further Jack digs, the more danger he encounters. What secret could be wroth so much that someone would kill to keep it that way?

Lee Child does it again! Jack Reacher is a character that you can stand behind. He is ethical and logical in everything that he does when he does decide to get involved. He genuinely seems to want to help in this particular case. I’ve truly enjoyed each of the books in the Reacher series. I was pretty disappointed that I figured out who the bad guy was before it was revealed to me. Either this book wasn’t that hard to get or I’m learning Child’s writing style.

Child doesn’t add characters where they aren’t needed. It’s nice to not have to remember a bunch of names that aren’t relative to the story. The bad guy was truly awful. The things that were done in that book weren’t graphic and really that was almost worse. Child left the violence up to your imagination. I didn’t feel that this was the strongest book in the series so far but I can’t wait to read the next one!

Recommended For: Readers looking for a suspenseful read that will keep you up for hours.

Avoid If: You are squeamish when it comes to bad guys who mean business.

[ibeforem]

I think this was the best book in the series so far. Reacher finds himself challenged not only by a mystery, but by some changes in his personal life. The mystery is, what happened to Victor Hobie? Did he die in Vietnam? If not, why hasn’t he contacted his bereaved family? If so, who’s using his name to terrorize businessmen in New York? Along the way, Reacher encounters a blast from the past that may make him change his drifting ways. But if he’s not a drifter, will he be the same Jack Reacher? Lots of great suspense here, and an ending that leaves you wondering what’s next for our mysterious hero.