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Loading... Without Fail (2002)by Lee Child
None. I'm gradually reading the Jack Reacher books in order, and this is the sixth. After making it through nearly half the extant books, I'd have to say that the other Jack series (Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson) is the more consistently entertaining, that is if you don't ...mind a little supernatural horror with your vigilante action. The previous Jack Reacher outing, Echo Burning, was a superb Texas gothic tale. But this one strains credibility in a couple of ways. First, I don't buy the motivation of the villains. Second, if they're as competent as everyone in the story believes them to be, there's no way they'd telegraph their crimes the way they did. I'm going to leave it at that so as not to spoil the story. And Jack. Dude! You know how to use every weapon known to man! Please, please, please learn to operate a washing machine! (  ) EricKibler | Apr 6, 2013 |  SuziQoregon | Mar 31, 2013 | Not just everyone can find Reacher. But when the head of the incoming Vice-President's secret service detail tracks him down, Reacher decides to help her out. Not because he's feeling particularly charitable, but because she used to date his brother Joe. At first, the job's just a job - assess how difficult it would be to get to the VP. And then the threat turns out to be real. Secrets, lies and politics - not strange bedfellows at all. And Reacher wears a suit - actually, several. Fun. (  ) SunnySD | Mar 26, 2013 | There's something about Jack Reacher that makes so fascinating. He's confident, callous, cold-blooded and hunts and kills without a bit remorse for his own code. He's a vigilante but it does make for exciting reading. This time he's approached by a secret service agent who knew his brother to do an external audit of the protection of the vice president-elect. He doesn't believe the audit and thinks there a real threat against the VP-elect. He gets Frances Neagley, a former MP he knows, to help him. Lots of twists and turns until the big shoot-out at the end. (  ) Kathy89 | Jun 5, 2012 | Another Jack Reacher story I'd read in paperback, but couldn't remember the plot lines, so worth reading again. (  ) edwardsgt | May 7, 2012 | no reviews | add a review Is contained in
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0515144312, Mass Market Paperback)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 (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:56:08 -0400) Hired by the Secret Service to test their shield around the new vice president of the United States, ex-military cop Jack Reacher discovers that a team of assassins is already planning a hit on the vice president. |
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