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Jack Reacher: Book 3

Tripwire (1999) (edit title/settings)

by Lee Child (Author) (edit contributors)

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Reacher's anonymity in Florida is shattered by an investigator who's come looking for him. But hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Retracing the PI's trail back to New York, Reacher's compelled to find out who was looking for him and why. He never expected the reasons to be so... read more

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  • “They were both MP lieutenants, both twenty-four years old. I was an MP lieutenant when I was twenty-four. They were killed because of what you did wrong. That's why you're going to answer to me, Allen. Because I'm them. Scum like you gets people like me killed.”
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  • “I want to see Saint Vincent. And I want to see him right now. Tell him to get his sorry ass in this room inside five minutes of I'm going to be seriously pissed off.”
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  • People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there’s nothing much to regret.
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  • Combat is about time and space and opposing forces. Like a huge four-dimensional diagram. First step is misinform the enemy. Let him think your diagram is a completely different shape. You assume all communications are penetrated, and then you use them to spread lies and deceit. You buy yourself an advantage.
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  • Piet Mondrian was his favorite painter of all time, and this exact picture was his favorite work of all time. The title was Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue.
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  • ask once, ask twice if you must, but for God’s sake don’t ask three times.
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  • pity the man who gets what he wants. And it’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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  • WITHOUT FAIL ECHO BURNING RUNNING BLIND TRIPWIRE
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  • Detection and response. Stage one, stage two. First you spot the threat, and then you react.
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  • Yard work summed up the whole futile procedure. First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later. You curse about it getting too long, and then you worry about it staying too short and you sprinkle expensive water on it all summer, and expensive chemicals all fall.
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  • Don’t worry about why it went wrong. Just damn well put it right.
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  • drayage around here. ” “It looks pretty heavy, ” he said.
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First Sentence edit see section history

Hook Hobie owed the whole of his life to a secret nearly thirty years old.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 3 of 20 in Jack Reacher. (standard series)

Preceded by Die Trying, and followed by Running Blind.

This is book 3 of 20 in Jack Reacher (Reading Order). (standard series)

Preceded by Die Trying, and followed by Running Blind.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Lee Child (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0399144676
Page Count: 343

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 2102 vol. 9
  • Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Graphic violence

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