Tripwire: (Jack Reacher 3)

Lee Child

Sep 2008 · Jack Reacher Book 3 · Random House

About this ebook

‘If the final pages of this story don’t make your heart race, then you might want to make sure your heart is still working.’ KARIN SLAUGHTER


For Jack Reacher, being invisible has become a habit.

He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in a local strip club in the Florida Keys.

He doesn't want to be found.

But someone has sent a private detective to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the guy beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. It's time to head north and work out who is trying to find him and why.
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'Lee Child continues his meteoric rise and mastery of suspense with Tripwire. It's a tightly-drawn and swift thriller that gives new meaning to what a page-turner should be.' MICHAEL CONNELLY
'A slickly effective thriller which confirms Child's ability to keep the reader guessing - and sweating.' THE TIMES

Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Tripwire is 3rd in the series.

Ratings and reviews

The book is a great story and an easy read but the trouble is that all of the actuall story telling takes place in the dialogue between characters. it's kind of makes everything else meaningless. You could literally read only the bits in quotation marks and this book would be more enjoyable than reading the whole thing.

Weakness: the "twists" are so obvious, and so frequently signposted that each time there's a clue you find yourself thinking "I know what's going to happen, just get on with it!" Strength: the lead character it very likeable, and after what I thought was a fairly forgettable story, I want to read the next episode.

Some dislike this one, personally I could visualise every second of it. Perfect world creation.

About the author

Lee Child is one of the world's leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.