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Violence
A lot
Significant violence — assassination attempts; confrontations; Secret Service operations
Language
Some
Moderate profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild — some romantic history with the Secret Service agent
Substance Use
None
No meaningful substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The insider threat — the real assassination plot alongside Reacher's sanctioned probe; Washington D
What this book is about
A Secret Service agent — once a colleague of Reacher's — asks him to try to kill the Vice President-elect. Not really: she wants him to show the flaws in their protection so they can be fixed before someone with genuine intent exploits them. But someone already has the same plan. Without Fail is the sixth Reacher novel — a tight political thriller with Reacher working inside the system he usually operates outside of.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Presidential protection — a Vice President-elect assassination plot
Reacher working inside the system — unusual for the series
Sixth in the Reacher series
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