Tripwire
- 426
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Tripwire” is the third Jack Reacher novel, a dark mystery built around a soldier long listed as missing in Vietnam. Some readers find it slower and more detail-minded than the first two and welcome the way each volume differs from the last; others find the extra viewpoints add little and think the mystery lacks spark. It is the Reacher book for those who enjoy the legwork as much as the fights.
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About the book
Tripwire is the third book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published in 1999 by Putnam in America and Bantam in the United Kingdom. It is written in the third person. In the novel, retired military police officer Jack Reacher becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a Vietnam War veteran who was reported missing in action, but who has resurfaced as a vicious loanshark with a secret he will murder to protect.
Reading order · Jack Reacher
Full order & progress →- Killing FloorStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - Die Trying
7.57.5 / 10 - TripwireThis book
7.57.5 / 10 - Running Blind
7.67.6 / 10 - Echo Burning
7.67.6 / 10 - Without Fail
7.77.7 / 10 - Persuader
7.77.7 / 10 - The Enemy
7.87.8 / 10 - One Shot
8.08.0 / 10 - The Hard Way
7.87.8 / 10 - Bad Luck and Trouble
7.97.9 / 10 - Nothing to Lose
7.57.5 / 10 - Gone Tomorrow
7.97.9 / 10 - 61 Hours
7.87.8 / 10 - Worth Dying For
7.97.9 / 10 - The Affair
7.97.9 / 10 - A Wanted Man
7.77.7 / 10 - Never Go Back
7.77.7 / 10 - Personal
7.77.7 / 10 - Make Me
7.77.7 / 10 - Night School
7.77.7 / 10 - The Midnight Line
7.77.7 / 10 - Past Tense
7.87.8 / 10 - Blue Moon
7.67.6 / 10 - The Sentinel
7.67.6 / 10 - Better off Dead
7.37.3 / 10 - No Plan B
7.67.6 / 10 - The Secret
7.67.6 / 10 - In Too Deep
7.57.5 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 431 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 75% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 17 | 4% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 9 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 405 | 94% |
Frequently asked
How long is Tripwire?
It has 426 pages — shorter than 55% of the ranked books in Thriller.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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Same shelf — Thriller — with scores between 7.5 and 7.6, closest to this book.
