Tripwire
"Trip wire "
Ex-military policemen Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not best pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him, but when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realises it is time to move on. Soon (as in Child`s two previous excellent thrillers Die Trying and Killing Floor) Reacher is up to his neck in lethal trouble involving a vicious Wall Street manipulator, a mysterious woman (of
course) and the livelihood of a whole community. Even the fate of soldiers missing in action in Vietnam is stirred into the brew. But this is not a book by one of the new breed of US thriller writers: Child prides himself that, as an Englishman, he writes American thrillers that are utterly convincing in milieu and toughness of action, without a trace of English sensibility. This new one is no exception-- every bit as lean and compulsive as its predecessors, it also builds on the freshest aspect of those books: Reacher may be a tough, epic hero, but he always remains human and vulnerable. Here`s one for that long plane or train journ
Zobacz pełny opis| Odpowiedzialność: | Lee Child. |
| Hasła: | Powieść angielska |
| Adres wydawniczy: | London : Bantam, 2000. |
| Opis fizyczny: | 540 s. ; 18 cm. |
| Uwagi: | Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam`s Sons, 1999. "A Jack Reacher novel"--Cover. |
| Powiązane zestawienia: | Thriller psychologiczny Książki w języku angielskim |
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