An assassin kills a Secret Service sniper named Crosetti, and fires at Armstrong twice. Ten agents look over the homeless people as they line up to get food from Armstrong, and snipers are posted on the only rooftop that has a clear shot at the Vice President. On Thanksgiving, Froelich meticulously secures the area. Froelich moves the benefit lunch outside, where the Secret Service can better control who gets close to Armstrong. for help they send Special Agent Bannon, who concludes based on the weapons used in the Colorado and Minnesota homicides that a Secret Service agent is behind the killings. Reacher and Neagley argue that Armstrong should be warned, and that the event should be cancelled. On Thanksgiving Day, Armstrong is scheduled to serve food at a lunch buffet at a homeless shelter. A killer appears at another event in Bismarck, but Reacher breaks into the church tower where they were hiding out and they flee without a trace. The would-be assassins kill two men, one in Colorado and one in Minnesota, who resemble the Vice President and also have the name "B. Froelich asks why Neagley and Reacher never had a relationship, and he tells her that, for reasons she will not disclose, Neagley has a fear of being touched by others. Reacher tries on one of his brother's suits, and Froelich sleeps with him. She and her supervisor, a man named Stuyvesant, agree to hire Reacher and Neagley to help their investigation. Reacher reveals to Froelich that he hired his old colleague from the military police, Chicago security consultant Frances Neagley, to help with the "audit." Working together, Reacher and Neagley say that they could have killed the Vice President three times for sure, and once probably, in three days.įroelich reveals that the Secret Service has been receiving letters from someone threatening to kill Armstrong.
Froelich hires Reacher to conduct a "security audit" of the Secret Service's protection of Vice President-elect Brook Armstrong, the junior senator from North Dakota.Īrmstrong attends a meeting and photo-op with prominent bankers on Wall Street, a campaign event in Bismarck with the newly elected senator from North Dakota, and a fundraising event in Washington, D.C. Froelich, who had dated Reacher's brother Joe, a fellow Secret Service agent, before his death ( Killing Floor).
He is approached there by Secret Service Agent M.E. Jack Reacher arrives in Atlantic City after hitching a ride cross-country with a couple of aging blues musicians who dream of playing at B.B.
In the novel, retired military police officer Jack Reacher is asked by the Secret Service to help track down assassins who are threatening the Vice President-Elect. Without Fail is the sixth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child.
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