Without Fail: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child employs his usual meticulous style of point by point description to tell of a determined effort to assassinate the Vice President elect and Jack Reacher's role in preventing it. In this early work some of Reacher's distinguishing characteristics have not been worked out; such as not needing a watch or clock.

very good book, a Jack Reacher story

Reacher doesn't disappoint. There was a little bit of dragging in the discussions about the details of the threats, but it didn't last long.

4.5 Stars. Another excellent outing in the Jack Reacher series. This hooked me from the very first paragraph (it is a great first paragraph in my opinion). There are one or two surprises in there and it does explore further Jack's relationship with his deceased brother Joe.

Someone tries to kill the Vice President.

I always forget how much i enjoy the Jack reacher books until I read the next one. The Reacher books read like an above average movie thriller. There are a few moments where you have to wonder, really they would do it like that, but that the roller coaster ride continues.

Make sure you read the Reacher books in order. You have to have already bought into the concept of Reacher as a character to make this book work.

This book is about an assassination attempt on the Vice President. Reacher finds himself tangled up in it when someone from his brothers past comes seeking his help. I already own the next book in the series and will read it sometime this summer.

This was slow and tedious. I find there are two types of Jack Reacher books. Ones that move right along and are the proverbial "page turners" and ones that you have to force yourself to finish. Unfortunately, this one falls in the second category.

I found the sixth book in the Jack Reacher series somewhat lacking. The story-line was somewhat slow; Reacher seemed to take weak evidence and make brilliant deductions from it time after time; important characters are introduced late in the overall story; and Reacher's approach to the final conclusion was clumsy. I'm hoping number 7 is back on track.

The worst of the Reacher books so far. The set up is so unbelievable that it drags down the entire book. Reacher himself seems out of character. I assume things get back on track.

I really like the Jack Reacher character and "Without Fail" holds up as well as any of them.This time out, M.E. Froelich, a secret service agent tasked with protecting the VP-elect, seeks Jack out to help her team devise better ways to protect their charge. Froelich used to date Reacher's late brother. The SS received a particularly credible threat against the VP in unusual circumstances. Reacher teams up with a former associate Frances Neagley and they proceed to poke holes throughout VP-elect Armstrong's detail.Now Reacher and Neagley are asked to help them determine who's gunning for Armstrong and why."Without Fail" delves into much of how the secret service operates, although I'm not sure how much of it is accurate. And as always, I'm intrigued by Lee Child's depth of detail to story and plot. But also as always, I feel like most of Child's Reacher books are about 100 pages too long. The cat and mouse chase is well written as usual, but there are times when the story drags just a bit.Still, if you've like other Reacher stories, you'll enjoy this one too.

Long, slow buildup before much action happens. Probably my least favorite Reacher book so far.

The whole premise of the mystery was intriguing - how to figure out why someone would want to kill a political figure. I had my suspicions that things would play out in less obvious ways. Jack gets to do his vigilante thing but for once he isn't a suspect, which was a nice change.

Lee Child reaffirmed his greatness once again with this book. There are a a handful of authors, whom Lee is at the top of the rankings, who really inspire me. I don't think I've ever picked up a Reacher novel without coming up with an idea for my own writing.

Certainly not one of my favorite Reacher novels. A plot to kill the VP Elect. Way too contrived. Needlessly over complicated and unrealistic. Two guys with a decades old grudge against the VP set out to kill him and for some unexplained purpose, set out obscure clue after clue rather than just do the nasty deed. Pretty stupid plot for sure.

Very good read - one of the best in the series

Reacher of course! Enjoy Lee’s writing style and content . Excellent

another thrilling addictive plot line that keeps you guessing all the way to the end

Without Fail is a book that ends the way that it started. Jack Reacher always has his magical superpower ways of dealing with and ultimately eliminating bad guys. The book is thrilling and just a good story. Four stars were given in this review.

A little hokey but still a fun read.

Ah, perfectly readable, and I really like Child's characters surrounding the very likeable Reacher, but this story is really dragged out long after it's obvious it's not going anywhere all that interesting. Somewhat similar ending to Echo Burning only that one was about 10 times better. Anyway, readable, very interesting about the entire US Secret Service detail surrounding the Vice President, but not really recommended.

Lee Child just flat knows how to write a great story with great plot and great characters. This is another in the fabulous Jack Reacher series. This time a friend of Jack's late brother hires Jack to kill the vice-president of the US. Well, to find out how easy it would be. See, the friend is in charge of the vice-president's secret service and they have a serious threat.

Another solid effort by Child. I just really enjoy the Jack Reacher series. No, these books aren't going to change people's lives, but they are a great diversion. Good stories that are well-crafted and characters that, although not always the most probable of human beings, are nonetheless more than cardboard cutouts. They offer escapism but that doesn't mean that they aren't well written.

Very good, well paced too. Lee Child seems to love isolated/out of the way areas, and this is one of my favourites with Reacher working out the technical know how to get to the killer/s.

When we catch up to Jack Reacher this time, he is in Atlantic City. But, not for very long. He somehow finds himself in Washington D.C., approached by a Secret Service agent who needs his help. Another damsel in distress. This one has ties to his dead brother, so how can he say no? Agent M.E. Froelich wants, errr no, needs to test the holes in her security detail guarding the newly elected vice-president, Brook Armstrong. She tells Reacher she's just a girl playing in a competitive man's world and those resentful men? They're all out to get her; prove she's horrible at her job. What Reacher doesn't know is this isn't really a test. No one is bitter about Froelich's position. Instead, Vice President Armstrong has been receiving very real death threats. Now Reacher is in it deep and he can't back out. He needs to figure out who is behind the threats before the vice president is assassinated. The clock is ticking...

The 6th Jack Reacher book by publishing order, and 9th by chronology, Without Fail has a reasonable plot which sees a Vice President-elect being threatened by a mystery criminal who is planting cryptic threats within the Secret Service offices, and also sending said threats by mail directly to the VP-elect.Whilst there's a fair bit of violence and action within the book, I couldn't help but feel there was a lack of emotion throughout the entire story. It's as if none of the characters really cared too much about what was going on, whilst yes some of the periphery law enforcement characters seemed genuinely concerned about what was unfolding, Reacher and Neagley just didn't seem to care. Once again we also find Reacher and the main female character in bed, despite said female character being Reacher's dead brother's ex-girlfriend, but don't worry there's a segment that tells us Reacher's dead brother broke up with her so that apparently green lights it for them both.Overall, it was decent, not as bad as some of the earlier books in the series, however that being said I felt it wasn't quite up to the standard of the prior two novels.

Comatose Literature: "Without Fail" by Lee Child

When summer is just around the corner, I start thinking about what books to take on holidays. Beach or pool is also important, but the real clincher are the books. And the first question on the agenda is which books should I bring? More important even than my destination, are the books I’m taking with me. I’ve always been like this. My wife used to complain that I packed lots and lots of books in case I got stranded on a desert island by mistake… What else? Ah yes. The strategy to pick up books. More than selecting what to wear, which is also fun, what gives me great pleasure is selecting the books to take. Maybe they’ll have a light cover, title in pastel yellow, and italicized font. Sometimes I surprise myself I choose an outlier, i.e., I’ll marathon a book while sunning myself, meaning when choosing I go for something that lends itself to that. What is clear is that I’ll enjoy them in a beach chair under over-sized umbrella, sun hat either on chair or on head-face unseen.

If you read the rest on my blog, you won't get into a coma...

Sixth book in the Jack Reacher series.
Reacher is approached to do an audit of the safety precautions surrounding a vice president elect.
Having done this, he then gets involved in a threat against this candidate.
I didn't enjoy this as much as other books. There's a lot of waiting around and reacting rather ineffectually to the threat.
The book finally gets underway towards the end.

read 3 books of Jack Reacher series consecutively and with every book the interest in the series dips down a bit low...i guess that i should keep my hands off from the Jack Reacher series fr a while.
for this book..nt mch of a fun to read..evrything was predictible n u can see it comin if u have read some books of this series..all in all an Average Read.

I read this in its entirety while on the air flight to Vancouver for vacation. Jack Reacher is the protagonist, a former military policeman, essentially an invincible character who is the hero of several books. He is hired to probe weaknesses in a presidential security detail, ends up in love with a Secret Service agent who is killed by a would-be assassin, who in turn is killed by Reacher. Fast-paced, interesting detail, and suspenseful.

Another great book in the series.