Tripwire: (Jack Reacher 3)

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Child might want to take a look at authors who left their money makers behind and tilled new soil (Dennis Lehane kissing Patrick and Angie goodbye) and those that didn't (John Sandford and Lucas Davenport in the Prey series) and decide owhere he wants to go from there. The provisional title for Tripwire was The Hook, but that name was scrapped as Putnam believed the title was not "punchy" enough.

Jacob and arrives in the middle of a funeral for his old mentor, former commanding officer, and friend, General Leon Garber.His response to their activation would be to tie up loose ends, cash in, transfer his assets, and disappear without trace. Michael Connelly 'A slickly effective thriller which confirms Child's ability to keep the reader guessing - and sweating' The Times ___________________ For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. At the hospital, however, a doctor discovers that, due to the arduous physical labour he has done digging pools in Key West, his pectoral muscle was so thick the bullet did not make it past his rib cage. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world, and are published in over one hundred territories.

Allen and his men take them hostage, but Marilyn is able to stall them before her husband signs over his company. I was definitely unsure as to how it was all going to resolve, and I really couldn't put the book down. The book was published on 15 June 1999 in the United Kingdom [1] and the American publication followed on 28 June of the same year. Allen and his men take the couple hostage, but Marilyn is able to stall them before her husband signs over his company. Running parallel to the story is another thread involving a CEO of a crumbling company and his attempts to keep it going by borrowing money from "Hook" Hobie, an amputee from the Vietnam war who takes great pleasure in using his prosthetic hook to inflict damage on those who do not pay up on time.Jack then flies to New York to find out why Costello was looking for him and why he was killed for it. Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, Florida, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he's ever been. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. They discover that the Hobies had been tricked into giving their life savings to a con man and gun runner named Rutter, who poses as a fake military liaison and investigator to families of MIA soldiers. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds.

The book was also praised by fellow authors, with Michael Connelly saying "It's a tightly-drawn and swift thriller that gives new meaning to what a page-turner should be.

However, his real objective is to seize control of their assets, using torture and violence to force his clients to agree to his terms. Accept no substitutes' Mick Herron 'Lee Child continues his meteoric rise and mastery of suspense with Tripwire. Reacher and Jodie follow Costello's trail, uncovering information on her father's last project, an investigation for the Hobie family on the whereabouts of their son Victor, a helicopter pilot reported missing-in-action decades ago in Vietnam. Under his new identity, Allen amasses a fortune as a "moneylender", before establishing himself as a legitimate businessman who offers assistance to financially troubled firms unable to get loans.