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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  BobAvey | Oct 30, 2009 |  Standard Lee Child stuff. But a more interesting beginning than some. (  ) topps | Oct 25, 2009 | Still not as good as the first Reacher novel. This plot has pretty much what you'd expect: bad guy does something, Reacher gets dragged into it, lots of gun chat, military chat, people getting beat up, then Reacher comes in and saves the day. Perhaps the 'romance' in this novel is what took away from the enjoyment. About 1/5 of the novel is just Reacher 'falling in love' (well, he doesn't fall in love, of course, but it's him being all domestic with a woman, having sex, travelling around, having more sex... though there aren't even any sex scenes in the book to entertain yourself during all this 'romance', just allusions to it). ( ) crazybatcow | Oct 22, 2009 | A New York private investigator tracks down ex-MP Jack Reacher in Florida, but before Reacher can decide whether to cooperate, the PI is killed. Reacher is a drifter, working menial jobs and moving on whenever he gets restless. He decides to track down the PI’s client, and see what might have gotten him killed. Jack’s former commanding officer Leon Garber has just died, while waiting for the PI to find Reacher. Garber hoped to enlist Reacher’s help with a MIA case from the Vietnam War. Garber’s daughter, Jodie (who has been in love with Reacher since she was fifteen) is also in danger, and they team up to solve the mystery Leon Garber started to investigate. (  ) Shari13 | Sep 13, 2009 | 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. ( ) miyurose | May 22, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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As in Lee Child's two previous thrillers, Die Trying and Killing Floor, Reacher is soon up to his neck in lethal trouble, this time 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 U.S. thriller writers. Child prides himself on his ability, as an Englishman, to write American thrillers that are utterly convincing in milieu and toughness of action, without a trace of English sensibility. Tripwire 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. --Barry Forshaw
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In, Tripwire, a tale of intrigue complicated by a military cover-up, Lee Child pulls the reader along with enough suspense to keep the pages turning, and the trip is enjoyable. However, the book drags in a few places, which could be fixed by tighter writing. Additionally, the hero, Jack Reacher, steps out of character now and then, as do some of the other characters, but all in all, it's a good read.
Bob Avey, author of The Detective Elliot series (