Jun 082013
The Hit
From David Baldacci–#1 bestselling author and one of the world’s most popular, widely read storytellers–comes the most thrilling novel of the year. THE HIT Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims. No one else can match Robie’s talents as a hitman…no one, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equal
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Baldacci at his brilliant best,
“The Hit” is David Baldacci at his brilliant best – a page turning action thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat right through to the very end.
Once again we meet Will Robie (from “The Innocent”), a larger than life cold-blooded professional killer for the US government. Robie is given his hardest and most dangerous assignment yet – to hunt down and eliminate rogue fellow assassin Jessica Reel who has killed her handler and is systematically killing associates. Reel is especially deadly because she is almost Robie’s match as a professional killer.
His thoughts on the assignment are simple – “Sending a killer to catch a killer actually made sense. We talk a different language and we see the world through a separate prism that no one else could possibly understand….So Reel dead, or me. It really was that simple. And also that complicated.”
As with most of Baldacci’s stories, nothing is as it seems and the plot has more exciting twists and turns than a fast paced game of snakes and ladders and nobody can be trusted. Along the way Robie encounters booby traps, firebombs, ambushes and big games of double-cross and conspiracy.
Over the years Baldacci has built an unenviable collection of amazing characters and Will Robie is amongst the best, especially because at rare times he does show some signs of humanity and trust in others. Robie painfully reflects on the conflict between being a killer and being a human being. “The only problem is, I can’t be both”. As you get to know her, Jessica Reel is another complex and compelling character.
This book is David Baldacci at his best with great actions and characters. Highly recommended – it will keep you guessing to the end so sit back and make time to read this book because once you are hooked it will be hard to put down.
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|FAST-PACED and ACTION-PACKED,
THE HIT is the second book in the Will Robie Assassin series after The Innocent and is another well-written, captivating thriller that grabs the reader’s attention and won’t let go until the very end. Then it becomes a memorable story you won’t forget any time soon.
When the U.S. Government needs a black op commissioned to rid the world of undesirables and threats, they call on their number 1 hitman, Will Robie. He is effective, deadly and will leave no trace back to him or his handler, the Government. Enter Jessica Reel, a fellow agent; lethal assassin also, nearly as good as Will, and has just gone rogue. Will’s instructions are clear – remove the threat of this rogue agent by any and all means, dead or alive, they want her out of commission, permanently.
But there are two sides to every story. Has Jessica really gone rogue, or has someone high up in Government made it look like she’s a threat? Things are not what they appear at first glance.
The author takes the reader on a gripping ride with more twists and turns than a snake on speed. A fast-paced, action thriller that I highly recommend.
Bestselling author,
RJ Parker
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|Same thing,
This book was slow to get into. It also had the same themes as other books written by him and a lot that was VERY close to other ideas and story lines of other authors. Maybe he needs to take a break or get a different topic.
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