Tripwire: (Jack Reacher 3)

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His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world, and are published in over one hundred territories. Later on, while Reacher is working his night job as a bouncer in a strip club, two very suspicious-looking men also make inquiries about his location. The provisional title for Tripwire was The Hook, but that name was scrapped as Putnam believed the title was not "punchy" enough. The story then begins with Jack Reacher working two jobs in Key West and bumping into a private investigator, Costello, who happens to be looking for him on behalf of a client named Mrs. Under his new identity, Allen amasses a fortune as an illicit "moneylender", before establishing himself as a legitimate businessman who offers high-interest loans to financially troubled firms unable to borrow from banks.

Reacher and Jodie follow Costello's trail, uncovering information on her father's last project, an investigation for the elderly Mr. At the hospital, however, a doctor discovers that, due to the arduous physical labour that was required for his job manually digging pools, his pectoral muscle was so thick the bullet did not make it past his rib cage. We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present.If you pick up The Cathedral or Charm School, obviously the boogie man is dead and life is different. Accept no substitutes' Mick Herron 'Lee Child continues his meteoric rise and mastery of suspense with Tripwire.

Allen and his men take the couple hostage, but Marilyn is able to stall them before her husband signs over his company. Reacher is then visited (while convalescing) by the Hobie family to thank him for restoring their son's good name. 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. Most of the women that Reacher sleeps with notice the "crater" and usually place their pinkie there while asking how it happened. More than thirty years of quiet success has made him feel somewhat secure, but he did not expect both alerts to arrive on the same day.

Lee is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. Severely burned by the crash, he left his own tags behind to fool investigators and had his right hand, lost in the helicopter crash, replaced with a hook. Jack then flies to New York to find out why Costello was looking for him and why he was killed for it. The writing is terse and the story is pretty tight, and the total convergence of all the plotlines doesn't happen until the very end.

Reacher manages to kill Allen and his men, but sustains a seemingly fatal bullet wound to his chest. A little history lesson on our military and some insight on what a great guy Reacher is by the company he keeps. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. Severely burned by the crash, Allen left his own dogtags behind to fool investigators and had his right hand, lost in the helicopter crash, replaced with a hook.Louis, which leads them to the military Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, a special facility that identifies the forensic remains of soldiers. As Reacher follows the trail, it becomes clear that the stakes are high: the livelihood of a whole community; the fate of the soldiers missing in action in Vietnam; and, not least, the reappearance of a woman from Reacher's own troubled past with a key to his destiny. 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. Digging a swimming pool by hand in Key West, former military policeman Jack Reacher is not pleased when Costello, a private detective, comes nosing around asking questions about him.