Tripwire

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Summary: You will want to skip ahead
Review: The accumulated reviews of this novel tell you all you need to know about character and plot: Jack (NMN) Reacher, bumming about Key West, without advance knowledge, revives a youthful/mutual attraction and inherits a home near West Point from the woman's father, his former C.O. This leads into a tangle of interlocking plots as a presumed KIA involved in corporate schemes and a group of MIA scamsters dreaw Reacher and his companion into a puzzle solution while a brutal kidnapping/multiple murder plot develops. Much of the mystery for Reacher is the large scale/small scale villiany which envelops him: just who is the bad guy. This is what the ultimate solution discovers.
Just looking at it tells you that this is a very thick book. What is worth knowing is that the writing - detail and description- sometimes gets in the way of the development of plot. After a while I started jumping ahead a paragraph or two ( no, I didn't spoil it by going to the end, but.....I advise you not to do that either, the wait is worth it). Perhaps a bit of judicious trimming would improve what is a very good read. Certainly worth a few bucks.

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Summary: Average; But it's still Jack Reacher!
Review: The book starts off well, in classic Lee Child fashion. Reacher is a drifter in Key West until a P.I. finds him. Reacher denies who he is when asked, but then the P.I. turns up murdered. Traveling back to New York to find out who hired the P.I., he meets up with someone from his past--the daughter of his mentor. The love story and action are intense, but the story of a missing-in-action Vietnam soldier, Victor Hobie, isn't very compelling. With a good plot twist at the end, Child almost redeems himself. Not the best work, but it's still a Reacher thriller!

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Summary: Tripwire
Review: This is my first book by Lee Childs, but it won't be my last. He writes concisely and well, with completely drawn characters and terrific suspense.