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Child certianly doesn't trip up

Advantages: Fantastic characterisation
Disadvantages: NONE

Tripwire is the third novel in Lee Child's series of books written around the fictional character of Jack Reacher. Digging Swimming Pools by hand in Florida Jack Reacher is about as fit as he as ever been. Loving his life as a drifter Reacher is not l ...

MI9to5 03.12.2008 · Read full review
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Best yet from Child

Advantages: Great story and characters
Disadvantages: Can't think of any

“Tripwire” is another book from Lee Child in the Jack Reacher series. It is the book that I have taken the longest to get round to. I will try and explain what initially put me off reading the book despite my fondness for Child’s w ...

tommy7 18.09.2001 · Read full review
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Jack Reacher at his best

Advantages: Story is complete in itself, no need to have read previous novels
Disadvantages: Jack Reacher is a big macho guy who minds his own business but if the need arises he can and will fight dirty. If you like your heroes whiter than white you might not like this guy.

...Child has come up with the goods. He just gets better and better. In Tripwire we see our hero Jack Reacher, an ex military policeman who has retired from the U.S. army with the rank of Major, digging a swimming pool in Key West. Af ...

maggs1939 28.05.2001 · Read full review
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Another excellent Jack Reacher thriller

Advantages: It's in a series, but it's not necessary to have read the others
Disadvantages: Reacher is a character in his own right - you may not like him

This is the third of Lee Child’s novels, the first two having received much critical acclaim and being great thrillers, despite the fact that they are American thrillers, written by an English author. Both his previous novels star Jack Reacher, form ...

LukeCroll 30.03.2001 · Read full review
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A Wire To Trip On

Advantages: Totally gripping and intense
Disadvantages: Takes too long to get going

Ok let's see if I can still do this ;-p I'll be honest, I bought this book in Orlando International airport because I needed something to read on the flight home. I had never heard of the author, nor the book before but the cover appealed to me so i sh ...

Craggles84 20.11.2004 · Read full review
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