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Tripwire is a hard-boiled crime thriller featuring murder, mutilation, and investigation into Vietnam War connections. It contains adult language, violence including graphic injury detail (severed fingertips), and mature themes around war trauma and crime. This is a book written for adult audiences, not young readers, though older teens interested in crime fiction may find it accessible.
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Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not at all pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him. But when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realizes it is time to move on. Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not at all pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him. But when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realizes it is time to move on.
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- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
- Private investigators
- Murder
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Veterans
- Fiction
- Missing in action
- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- Fiction, thrillers, general
- Reacher, jack (fictitious character), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
- Key west (fla.), fiction
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ISBN 9780515128635 · Penguin Group