Without Fail (Jack Reacher, No. 6)
by Lee Child
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Author: Lee ChildEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-26
ISBN: 0515144312
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Jove
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- ISBN13: 9780515144314
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Without Fail (Jack Reacher, No. 6)
Book Review: So far, the best in this series...
Summary: 5 Stars
I think that Without Fail by Lee Child is perhaps the best book thus far in his Jack Reacher series. Without Fail is book number six and I listened to the audiobook version read by Dick Hill.
Former MP Jack Reacher is in Atlantic City when a Secret Service agent hunts him down. The agent, M.E. Froelich, used to work with Reacher's brother, Joe. Froelic wants Reacher to run an independent security audit on the vice president-elect, Brook Armstrong. Reacher recruits former MP Frances Neagley for the job, and together, they prove how easy it would be to get close enough to kill Armstrong. It turns out that someone is threatening to kill Armstrong, and Froelich and her boss bring Reacher and Neagley aboard as outside consultants. It appears that the threats are coming from someone in the Secret Service, so they want investigators out of the loop. Those responsible for the threats are truly evil and it takes some doing to discover who they are and their motive. The FBI eventually takes over the case, and they are as close-minded as the Secret Service in their approach. So Reacher and Neagley take matters into their own hands in order to save Armstrong.
I liked Without Fail for a number of reasons. First, since Froelich was in a relationship with Reacher's brother, we learn much more about Joe and also, about the relationship between the brothers. Froelich had 4 or 5 of Joe's expensive suits at her house, so we actually get to see Reacher dressed in a different outfit almost every day (a novelty!). I also found it interesting to hear a little history behind the Secret Service and the Treasury Department. It is also a more realistic tale in that not all the good guys are alive at the end.
Until I saw a Parade Magazine cover last summer featuring Lee Child, I didn't know anything about Child or Jack Reacher. Thankfully, my late discovery allows me to enjoy another 8 books before I run out (or Child writes another book).
Summary of Without Fail (Jack Reacher, No. 6)
A covert group of assassins has the Vice President of the United States in their sights. They've planned well. There's just one thing they didn't plan on: Jack Reacher.
What better way to test the security surrounding a U.S. vice president-elect than to hire someone skilled in the killing arts to penetrate his protection? Assassination strategy, though, is only part of the assignment facing Jack Reacher in Without Fail. This restive, blunt-edged ex-military cop must also determine whether recent threats against VP-to-be Senator Brook Armstrong are legitimate or are primarily intended to embarrass the perfectionist head of Armstrong's new Secret Service detail, M.E. Froelich, who happens to have been a girlfriend of Reacher's late brother.
If Without Fail lacks the emotional urgency of Lee Child's previous novel, Echo Burning, it still barely lets the reader catch a decent breath between plot crests. Jack and his fetching yet formidable colleague, Frances Neagley, must figure out how warning letters to Armstrong are being delivered into the Secret Service sanctum, whether the senator is at risk because of something political or personal, and who staged the demonstration murders of two innocent men also named Armstrong, first initial B. Unfortunately, a few twists (including the source of a thumbprint applied to the threats against Armstrong) can be figured out in advance, and the story is light on character development. A tiny breach in Reacher's reclusive carapace opens as Froelich transfers the love she once felt for his brother toward him, and there are suggestions that Neagley may have depths of feeling just waiting to be plumbed. However, other players are mere ciphers--the sacrificial victims of an action-oriented yarn. --J. Kingston Pierce
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