Killing Floor vs Without Fail: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Killing Floor Killing Floor Lee Child · 1997 ★★★★☆ 4.1 475 pages · ≈ 8 h 48 m · Moderate

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody.…

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Cover of Without Fail Without Fail Lee Child · 2002 ★★★★☆ 4.5 408 pages · ≈ 7 h 33 m · Moderate

Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically, of course. A female Secret Service agent wants Reacher to find the holes in…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Killing FloorWithout Fail
Goodreads 4.1 (359815) —
Hardcover 5.0 (1) 3.9 (287)
Apple Books 4.5 (4943) 4.5 (3948)

Reception

Killing FloorWithout Fail
Ratings 359815 3948
Editions 64 42
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 182837 —
Reading it now 24831 —
Written reviews 16336 —
Wikipedia attention 9781 1563
Pages 475 408

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