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Title: Tripwire by Lee Child ISBN: 0-515-12863-5 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 June, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.81 (58 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good book, but still a notch below Killing Floor
Comment: I literally just finished reading Tripwire, and it was a good book, easily up there with Lee Child's other Jack Reacher books, but still not quite as "oh my god" awesome as Killing Floor. The villian this time was (without giving anything away) a fairly common type of character, whose true nature I saw coming well in advance of the final couple of chapters. Even so, this was a good novel, but not quite the "can't put it down to go to sleep" type of read that Killing Floor was. Maybe Lee Child will be like William Gibson, in that everything he writes after his first novel will be damn good, but just never able to measure up to that first work. That said, I'll still keep buying everything the guy writes.
Rating: 5
Summary: I'm in the minority...
Comment: of readers, because I think that Tripwire represents an evolution of Child's storytelling, and is better than his first two novels. Of course, that is probably because I'm a woman who wanted to see Dirty Harry evolve, as well....nevertheless, here's what I thought of Tripwire...
"Tripwire" is the third outing for Lee Child's Jack Reacher, and the first in which the much-decorated soldier finally appears to want to put down roots in his post-military
saga.
Lee Child cures most of his writing style issues in his story of a brutal and sadistic villain, Hook Hobie, and his way of life following his unlikely escape from a firestorm in Vietnam.
Hobie is a devastating foe, and his willingness to kill and pursue pain in order to cover up his past knows no bounds. His motivation, once his identity is known to Reacher, is still a mystery, that remains so until the end of the book. Caught in the crossfire is Reacher's former commander, Garber, and through his death both Reacher and Garber's daughter Jodie are caught up in the killing fields of Hobie's need for cover. The situation is made more complex by the military regime's need to also continue the cover up, but for different reasons. Reacher's reaction to Jodie is a central force in the novel,
His feelings for her go back fifteen years. This might be the central lynchpin that has Child turning his future story line around from Reacher the wanderer to Reacher, the same investigative force in civilian life as he was in the military.
Child, whose willingness to describe savagery and weaponry in detail in past novels, does not change his focus, but does change the level of detailed description, in a positive way.
His eye for the upstate New York landscape and the level of descriptiveness he uses in his setting in Tripwire much improve the plot. It's a big plot, with great flashback sequences to Vietnam and to the early days of Reacher & Jodie's relationship, and interesting and well-researched detail into the counterfeit currency trade.
Lee Child scores big and leaves the reader anxious for his next Reacher novel, "Running Blind."
Enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reacher returns
Comment: Ex-Army M.P. major Jack Reacher is living a low key existence digging swimming pools in Key West and also working as a bouncer at a local strip club. His solitude soon gets shattered when first an elderly private investigator named Costello and then two well dressed wise guys come looking for him. When the P.I. turns up murdered in the local cemetery, Reacher follows his trail to New York City.
After finding the location of the dead Costello's office and going through his files, Reacher determines that he was doing an investigation for one Leon Garber. General Leon Garber was Reacher's mentor in the military. He travels to Garber's residence in suburban New York to find the general's wake in progress. Greeted by Garber's attractive daughter Jodie, Reacher unfortunately learns that the general has just passed away. Jodie Garber, a successful lawyer, 15 years ago had a school girl crush on the strapping 24 year old Reacher.
Concurrent with Reacher's exploits another plot is playing out. The two punks looking for Reacher in Key West are part of the crew of "Hook" Hobie. Hobie is an unscrupulous, sadistic fire scarred usurer loaning money in instances deemed too risky for banks. Hobie's severed arm was replaced in part by a highly polished and sharp hook prosthesis. His high rates of interest were guaranteed by acts of violence including torture, maiming and killing. Hobie was presently involved in a bridge loan of 1.1 million dollars to Chester Stone owner of a failing optical company. Hobie was scheming to turn this into the stealing of the assets of the company and Stone himself to the tune of 17 million.
Jodie and Reacher team up when he learns that Costello worked for the law firm in which Jodie was employed. They visit the medical clinic where General Garber had been treated. Speaking to the doctor, they find out that the general was doing a favor for an elderly couple that also used that clinic. He was investigating the status of their son, a helicopter pilot missing in action in Vietnam for 30 years. Costello was sent by the general to find Reacher, to help him investigate. The missing son's name was Victor Hobie.
Reacher's and Hobie's fate move inexorably forward to formulate a crackling, tingling plot that has the reader thirsting for justice. Child really hits a home run with "Tripwire" resurrecting Reacher's past to give us a deeper understanding of the psychology behind this fascinating character.
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Title: Echo Burning by Lee Child ISBN: 0515133310 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Without Fail by Lee Child ISBN: 0515135283 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Persuader: A Jack Reacher Novel by LEE CHILD ISBN: 0385336667 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Enemy by Lee Child ISBN: 0385336675 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 11 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Narrows: A Novel by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316155306 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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