Search - Without Fail (Jack Reacher, Bk 6)

The Reacher books have a certain dour helplessness to them. They read like what I imagine a good Western would be like, if I'd ever read a Western. They could almost pass muster for Russian literature, except that they generally have happy endings to at least some of the narrative threads. For all that, they're excellent books, if you're into moderate plot complexity in the thriller genre and don't care overmuch for extremes of character development. Really good light reading.

This is the 3rd Jack Reacher book I've read and they just keep getting better. Fascinating in the way his mind works, picking up clues, drawing conclusions that amaze me. Highly recommend this series.

Great suspence mystery! I read this book during the 2008 elections/debates/media circus, which was very timely since the storyline is based on the Vice President Elect and a suspected murder plot.

A friend recommended this series to me and lent me book 6 due to the timely content. I'll read book 1 next, but I was told you don't have to read them in order. Very good writing, very good suspence, very good story!

Book six in the series, and the character is starting to wear a little thin. But, still a good read if you are a fan.

"Without Fail" was definitely better that "Echo Burning" but still felt a little short changed on the reasons behind the big mystery. I really still like the way Child describes the characters and their back stories and with each novel, we learn a little bit more and more about Reacher and his life before he became a drifter.

I still think it was an exciting book but I'll have to pause on the series for a bit. Like I mentioned in my other review of "Echo Burning", I'm beginning to predict when someone is going to say "So?", which is a easy way of explaining the plot of the story. No worries though, I've seen that technique in other stories and series.

But I'll always be in love with Jack Reacher. =)

Without Fail is the quintessential Jack Reacher tale. Reacher always demonstrates acute analytical thinking combined with action above and beyond the tough guy realm. Of the beauty, brains and brawn available to humans, Reacher definitely masters two out of three and he gets by in the third.
Reacher always gets the job done and protecting a future vice-president is all fun and games. Failure is not an option. But it's always the collateral damage that makes the books so interesting.