Tripwire
by Lee Child
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975Private investigatorsMurderVietnam War, 1961-1975Veterans
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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.
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Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975Private investigatorsMurderVietnam War, 1961-1975VeteransFiction
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FloridaKey WestKey West (Fla.)Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)United StatesNew YorkNew York (State)New York (N.Y.)
About the author
Lee Child
1954
Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. He was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down…
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