Tripwire: Jack Reacher

Overview

Third in the New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher series

A stranger looking for ex-military cop Jack Reacher is murdered. Now Reacher follows the man's cold trail back to where he came from--and into Reacher's own haunted past.

"Brings to mind the knight-errant adventures of John D. McDonald's Travis McGee." --Booklist

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Author Information

Bio of Lee Child

Lee Child was born in Coventry, England, in 1954, early enough to remember playing on left-over World War II bomb rubble, late enough to be young and impressionable through the Sixties. He went to law school, but took a job in commercial television. "I always loved entertainment," he says. "At elementary school, I was always in the school plays. As a teenager, I worked in shoestring theaters and arts centers. I took vacation jobs anywhere there was a stage and an audience. I never intended to practice law. I did the degree because it was an interesting subject." He joined Granada Television in Manchester, England, thinking the job would last a few months. He ended up staying nearly twenty years. He was there through the great era of British television drama, working on flagship shows like Brideshead Revisited, Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. "That was a wonderful, wonderful job," he says. "But eventually, twenty years is enough for anybody. And television is teamwork--I felt I wanted to get away from that and get closer to the audience, personally." So he made the decision to become a novelist. "I figured the novel is the purest form of entertainment, and certainly the closest I'd ever get to an audience...after all, a writer is literally one-on-one with the reader for hours and hours at a time."

Customer Reviews

• Best book of the Jack Reacher's series.

  Posted October 21, 2009 by C.C.C. , Phila. Pa.

  This was the 4th book I have read in the Jack reacher's series, and the best out of the 4. You must read it! With the mutable plots and psycho villain I couldn't put the book down.
  

Additional Info

Imprint

Penguin

Filesize

1.10 MB

Number of Pages

592

eBook ISBN

9781436266277