In 2015, Leonnig was recognized with the Pulitzer Prize for her revelatory reporting on the Secret Service. Here is journalism as a true and honest public service: Carol Leonnig’s new book, Zero Fail, about the rise and fall of the Secret Service.It is just terrific, to use a phrase from the. “Zero Fail” digs into the steely resolve and sacrifices of many Secret Service agents who have committed their lives to protect the nation’s security, but also uncovers senior agents’ arrogant misconduct and salacious scandals that the service sought to keep quiet. There’s plenty of courage in the Secret Service as. But as CBS News played the scene in a slow-motion loop, the boy’s focus wasn’t on the president. Earlier that day, John Hinckley, Jr., had attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton. Spanning 11 presidencies, the novel follows the missteps of the Secret Service, including the drunken outing the night before the Kennedy assassination to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. But in Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, Carol Leonnig offers a powerful antidote to Hollywood fantasies. On the evening of March 30, 1981, an eight-year-old boy in Norfolk, Virginia, sat glued to his family’s living room TV. “Zero Fail” debuted a the top of the New York Times Bestseller List upon its debut in May 2021 from Random House. Rights to the book, which detail the scandals and security failures of the Secret Service, have been acquired in a competitive situation to be adapted into a television series. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Carol Leonnig's new book, 'Zero Fail,' examines how the Secret Service is underfunded, overworked, and increasingly relying on luck. “Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post investigative journalist Carol Leonnig, will be getting the silver screen treatment. Zero Fail, a history of the agency by the Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, is a devastating catalog of jaw-dropping incompetence, ham-fisted mismanagement and frat-boy bacchanalia.

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