JFK received three times as many threats to his life as the previous average and was protected by a detail of “just” 34 agents (p. These passages are balanced by details of presidential misconduct, so the book brims with sex. In chronicling the “fall”, our author supplies salacious details on the sexual misadventures of Service agents. Although its “rise” was matched by a “fall” from grace in due course, it would lose no more chief executives in the decades to 2021, the year of her book’s publication. The Secret Service underwent expansion in response to the John F.
She starts her main storyline with the one presidential fatality of the modern era. As one would expect, she focuses on assassination attempts.
She relates the dangers faced by presidents, their families, and others who were offered the protection of the Service. She tells of the relationships between a succession of presidents and the men (and in recent years women) of the Secret Service. Leonnig applies a certain recipe consistently throughout Zero Fail. It carries a great deal of dialog and is an intoxicating procession of anecdotes that reflect the author’s diligent research - research that includes her oral history interviews of some of her story’s main characters. Her prose is truly gripping, having that impossible-to-put-down quality that is the dream of every publisher and literary agent. Its author, Carol Leonnig, writes for the Washington Post. Zero Fail has the characteristics of a book written by a journalist who is a triple Pulitzer Prize-winner. Reviewer: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones ǀ November 2021 Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
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