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Summary: Lee Child is a sure winner.
Review: I have read all of Lee Child's books dealing with Jack Reacher and they are all fabulous. Suspensful. Interesting. Compelling. Each has similar aspects but each is a different completely different story. I would definately recommend Lee Child!
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Summary: Not a failure!
Review: Without fail is the latest installment of the Jack Reacher series, and I can honestly tell you that Lee Child keeps on getting better and better.An unusual proposal (how would you like to assasinate a Vice President?) leads to a page turning thriller with intelligent and sometimes unexpected twists and turns. You don't need the background from previous novels (L. Child neatly sums everything up in few sentences), but I can only recommend that you read 'em all up. More, please!
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Summary: This Book Sucks
Review: This is the last Lee Child book I buy in hardcover. His main character has dialog that makes Star Wars look like Citizen Kane. The plausibility of the plot is near zero. After Killing Floor (truly an amazing novel), all of Lee Child's books have been a disappointment - and not in a relative sense. Avoid this.
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Summary: Without Fail - succeeded!
Review: These book was great! I could not put it down. Jack Reacher is my hero, the guy is unbeatable.
His brother Joe's former girlfriend, who is Secret Service guarding the VP elect, seeks Reacher out to infiltrate her team to find holes in their security and does he ever! After the boring part about questioning the cleaning crew, this book takes off. Reacher and his friend Neagley are pros of the first order (how does Lee do it?). This time Lee is a little kinder to the FBI. The other reviews of this book are right on. Such a good read. So worth the $.
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Summary: at the top of the year¿s political thrillers
Review: In charge of providing secret service protection to Vice President elect Brook Armstrong, M.E. Froelich worries about keeping the former North Dakota senator safe. She remembers a discussion with her deceased mentor and lover Joe Reacher that the best way to do a security audit is to use an outsider. She traces Joe's brother Jack, who has no paper trail, through a bank transaction in Atlantic City. M.E. hires Jack to "assassinate" the vice president. When several days pass with no attempts by Jack, M.E. figures he did not try until he suddenly contacts her. Jack and his cohort Frances Neagley prove to M.E. that they had three definite hits on the VP if they chose to really kill him. M.E. invites Jack and Frances to meet her boss, Stuyvesant as the mock security audit was more than a test as the newly elected Veep has received threats. The Secret Service hires them to uncover if the threats are genuine and to help prevent the killing of the vice president. Jack Reacher is already a great protagonist, but his latest appearance, WITHOUT FAIL, is his strongest adventure yet because he stays in character yet works inside a great political thriller that reaches into the highest levels of DC. Though the story line is loaded with action, the key cast members are fully developed so that new readers know Jack and long term fans appreciate Frances and M.E. Readers will demand more tales of Jack and Frances perhaps in her own series while placing Lee Child's novel at the top of the year's political thrillers. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Reacher is Unstoppable!!
Review: When Reacher is hired to review security measures for the Vice President (In a most unorthodox way) Reacher fans know that they're in for a wild ride! Between working with the secret service, fending off assassins, and falling in love with his late brothers ex-girlfriends, this book packs enough twists and turns to have a die hard fan screaming for more. For new readers, I suggest starting at the beggining of the series, but you'll still be able to grasp the concepts of this book if you don't. Enjoy!!
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Summary: Reacher on the government payroll again??
Review: Lee Child's "Without Fail" has a slightly different onset than his previous novels. Ex-MP major Jack Reacher, for once hasn't inadvertantly stumbled into a quagmire requiring his expertise and skills, he's being sought out. Secret Service agent M.E. Froelich is relentlessly pursuing him. Froelich, a former girlfriend of Reacher's deceased U.S, Treasury agent brother, Joe, has just been promoted to command the entourage sworn to protect Vice President elect Brook Armstrong. Apparently during pillow talk, Joe bragged that his younger brother Jack would be the perfect individual to test the efficiency of the protective Secret Service net surrounding a high ranking government figure. Froelich, remembering Joe's boast and now being in a position to authorize this type of audit was seeking out Reacher. She ultimately convinces Reacher to secretly stalk the V.P. and try to uncover opportunities to broach security and do him harm. Reacher recruits ex-Army master sergeant and lethal and capable colleague Frances Neagley to work with him. During their mission Reacher and Neagley discover that the audit was a charade. The Secret Service has apparently been infiltrated and there actually have been threats made on the life of V.P. elect Armstrong. At the urging of Froelich's boss, Agent Stuyvesant they join with the Secret Service to help eradicate this dangerous threat to security. Reacher fans can imagine what happens next! Suffice to say that Lee Child is an extraordinary entertaining writer.
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Summary: Without Fail Succeeds
Review: I loved this book! I could not put it down. Jack Reacher is my hero, the guy is unbeatable and resourceful.
His brother Joe's former girlfriend, who is Secret Service guarding the Vice President Elect, induces Reacher to infiltrate her team to find holes in their security, and does he ever!
After the boring part in the beginning about questioning the cleaning crew, this book takes off. Reacher and his friend, Neagley are pros of the first order. This time Lee Child is a little easier on the FBI. He has a tendendcy toward FBI bashing. But the book was a mile a minute and an excellent read.
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Summary: Fine 6th Jack Reacher -- Secret Service thriller !!
Review: We have read the entire Lee Child / Jack Reacher series, so obviously we enjoy these action packed thrillers about nice guy, smart guy, ex-MP Reacher. "Without Fail" is no exception, and a fast start -- a near-miss assassination attempt on Vice President-elect Armstrong -- soon leads the Secret Service to haul in Jack to act as a consultant and help them try to penetrate their security surrounding the veep so that they can plug any loopholes. Using an old Army friend, tough gal Frances Neagley, and teaming up (after hours as well!) with M.E. Froelich, who heads the responsible SS security team, Reacher is soon puzzling over hand delivered messages and video tapes before the more proactive action gets things heated up. That Froelich is an ex-lover of Jack's now deceased brother Joe only adds to the intrigue and gets Jack more involved emotionally than usual. Before it's over, a wild movie-like SUV chase out in Montana snow country finally leads to the real perpetrators. And who will get who in the end?
The Reacher series is loaded with clever plots, non-stop action and thrills. Rarely a dull moment keeps paging turning quickly; and Child's satisfying endings, often involving vigilante justice on the part of our hero to set things straight, rarely fail to please. While the premise of this one seemed a little less plausible than his other novels, Child's inside look at the Secret Service served as a good foil for Reacher. We wouldn't mind seeing more of his sidekick Neagley in future books; and as usual, this story just leaves us anxious for the next Jack Reacher outing!
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Summary: The Day of Jack Reacher
Review: While Frederick Forsyth's "The Day of the Jackal" is the classic assassination thriller, Lee Child hits another home run with "Without Fail", a page turner with all the technical accuracy of `Jackal" and the extra dose of adrenaline one would expect from Lee Child. Child's hulking loner Jack Reacher certainly has the mind of an assassin, and in "Without Fail", he is contracted by Secret Service agent M.E. Froelich to audit the security for the Vice President of the United States, the target of a threatened assassination. Froelich happens to be the former lover of Reacher's older brother, Joe, the former Treasury Department agent killed in action years before. What follows is an extremely credible portrayal of the US Secret Service and the challenges they face in protecting the holders of our highest public offices. As with all Child/Reacher novels, this one is well researched rich in detail. But just as the detail begins to hint at tedium, Child metes out another measure of plot twist, keeping the reader anxiously waiting for the next installment. Lee Child is a true student of pace, understanding the fine balance between plot development and action. Reacher's no-nonsense perspective on justice, crime and punishment is faithfully intact, but in "Without Fail", we meet Reacher's female equivalent, the formidable and lethal Frances Neagley, an ex-Army buddy of Reacher's. Like Child's hero, this is an austere, blunt, and powerful novel, ultimately predictable but never disappointing along the way. Entertainment in print simply does not get much better than this.
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