00-00 Tripwire Lee Child [Dick Hill] - Copy.txt
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Title: Tripwire (Jack Reacher 03)
Author: Lee Child
Read By: Dick Hill
Copyright: 1999
Website: http://www.leechild.com/
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Abridged: Unabridged
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Book Description
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The Barnes & Noble Review
The third Jack Reacher adventure finds the ex-military policeman living in Key West, digging pools by day and working as a bouncer by night. After three months in the islands, Reacher is settling in to his relaxed lifestyle and thinking of staying for good. But his idyll is interrupted when he is approached twice in one day for information on one Jack Reacher, first by an amiable private investigator named Costello, then by a pair of hulking thugs hot on Costello's trail. Reacher sidesteps their questions by denying his identity, but is drawn into matters after Costello is found dead, the victim of a savage beating apparently administered by the two thugs.
Anxious to know what inspired this violence, Reacher tracks the detective to New York, where he discovers Costello was hired by a "Mrs. Jacob." Visiting Mrs. Jacob's home, a surprised Reacher is pleased to learn Mrs. Jacob is actually the former Jodie Garber, daughter of the recently deceased General Garber, Reacher's mentor and commanding officer when he worked with the military police. Jodie informs Reacher that her father was trying to contact him to request his assistance in uncovering the truth about a Vietnam-era MIA.
Reacher agrees to finish the job Garber started, bringing him into direct conflict with the men who killed Costello and with their boss, "Hook" Hobie, a horribly scarred master criminal who is only hours away from making the biggest score of his life. Hobie has a dark past, the details of which will upset his current operation should they come to light. Reacher's investigations put him on acollisioncourse with the sadistic Hobie, who, as his nickname implies, sports a metal hook on his right hand. Both Reacher and Hobie pursue their agendas, inching ever closer to their inevitable conflict at book's end, a bloody battle that leaves only one of them standing.
In the hands of a lesser writer, this story could have easily spun out of control, lapsing into self-parody. Child, however, takes great pains to balance larger-than-life characters like Reacher and Hobie with a convincing supporting cast, using them to ground the novel in reality. He is also careful to show other sides of Reacher, who, with his impressive physical stature and penchant for violence, evokes such legendary fictional tough guys as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and Richard Stark's Parker. Yes, Reacher can take out a roomful of gunmen without breaking a sweat, but he's easily flustered by the woman he loves. A cool, competent, insightful investigator, he blanches at the very concept of home ownership. These small touches humanize Reacher, adding to his credibility.
From the Publisher
In Tripwire, Reacher's lazy anonymity in Key West is shattered by a stranger who comes to town searching for him. Hours after his arrival, the stranger turns up beaten to death in the Old Town cemetery, and Reacher is forced to follow the man's cold trail back to New York to find the people who dispatched him in the first place; a bewildered and elderly couple still mourning an all-American son lost in Vietnam; an alluring and intelligent woman from Reacher's own haunted past; and at the center of the web, the most vicious opponent Reacher has ever faced.
Lee Child confirms his early acclaim with this new tale, as swift and stylish as any suspense novel written today.
From The Critics
Playboy
The guy must be channeling Dashiell Hammett.
Publishers Weekly
Library Journal
Jack Reacher is retired from his career as a military policeman and settled into a low-profile life in Key West, FL. Alas, the calm is not to last. A man turns up murdered in the cemetery, and Reacher realizes he was the murdered man's reason for coming to the city. He then launches a search to discover who is behind the killing. The trail leads from sunny Key West to gritty and glitzy New York, a tortuous maze that involves an elderly couple who believe their son is a POW in Vietnam, the daughter of Reacher's deceased friend, and a man deeply in debt to a truly chilling villain. Dick Hill does a good job of keeping the pace, knowing when to pick up the tempo and when to lay back. His women don't really sound like women, though the characters' personalities do come through, which is this reviewer's measure of a good reading. Child (Die Trying) has written an intelligent thriller with plenty of action, believable characters, and just enough suspense to keep the listener on edge. A few details don't ring true: for example, in the United States, one usually looks for property records at the Register of Deeds, not at the public library. But this is not a work for deep reflection; it's an action ride. A worthy addition for the suspense/thriller section of public libraries.
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