Without Fail
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- ISBN13: 9780425207604
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The sixth novel in the acclaimed series featuring Jack Reacher.
With the vice president’s life in danger, the head of a high-level Secret Service security detail wants Jack Reacher to find the holes in her own system, and quick. A group of men already has the high-profile victim in their sights and will stop at nothing to realize their objective. What the assassins never plotted on was Jack Reacher.Amazon.com Review
What better way to test the security surrounding a U.S. vice president-elect than to hire a name skilled in the killing arts to penetrate his protection? Assassination strategy, though, is only part of the assignment facing Jack Reacher in Lacking 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 proposed 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 Lacking 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 study, 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. Sorry to say, a few twists (including the source of a thumbprint applied to the threats against Armstrong) can be figured out in advance, and the tale is light on character development. A tiny breach in Reacher’s ascetic carapace opens as Froelich transfers the like she once felt for his brother toward him, and there are suggestions that Neagley may have depths of feeling just waiting to be plumbed. But, additional players are mere ciphers–the sacrificial victims of an action-oriented yarn. –J. Kingston Pierce
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The only reason I don’t give this work 5 stars is because Child made a cardinal mistake in describing one weapon used by the killers. Anyone who knows pistols knows that GLOCKS do not have external safeties.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This book is action packed and has entertainment galore, for men mostly, but for women also who like James Bond type tales of hidden assassins and detailed descriptions of weapons and ammo. A plot has been set to assassinate the Vice-President elect of the United States. The why is answered at the end of the tale, but only one Secret Service man is aware of the plot. A name has infiltrated that elite group, and now there’s only one man in the entire world who can capture the would-be assassin. Jack Reacher, brother of Joe Reacher, a ex- Secret Service Agent now deceased (although we never find out how Joe died), is an “outsider”, hired to play the role of an assassin, to find the loopholes and the errors in the Secret Service’s plans to protect the Vice President-elect Brook Armstrong. Jack Reacher does a fantastic job, but why and who wants to asassinate Armstrong?Is there a secret in his past? It’s time to find out. Excellent plot, well developed characters, action packed, but just not my kind of book. Perhaps you will delight in it better.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I am a disappointed Reacher fan. I loved all of the previous Reacher novels and they were one of the four or five books I bought in hardcover because I couldn’t wait to read them.
Lacking Fail failed with me. Too slow moving. Dozens of pages watching videotapes (might as well be paint drying). Chapter One was excellent ancient Reacher material. Then it died.
Too much espionage and psychological stuff, not enough action.
Try a new leader who knows how to give you what you want. Try Double Dealing.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Going to a civilian to “red team” an operation? A female MP NCO whose specialty is neck breaking? Loading a pistol’s magazine one-handed? (That I’d like to see.) All Reacher is missing is a cape and X-Ray vision. (Added after finishing the book.) “On the click.” Reacher is dead. The condition of the magazine spring has nothing to do with firing the first round once it has been chambered.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have to admit that this book starts off well and does a terrific job of sustaining its momentum throughout the first 80% of the book. Then something goes terribly incorrect.
The leader hands over the writing of the book to a million monkeys pecking away at a million typewriters…
Child resolves his mystery with the lamest excuse for wanting to kill a Vice-President ever. It would be like me getting caught knocking over your mailbox when I was a kid and carrying a grudge for thirty years and then deciding to kill your kids for it.
It’s just that implausible. Readers deserve better and both Child and his editor deserve to be smacked around for the last 20% of the book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5