GOVERNMENT ASSASSIN Will Robie is back in David Baldacci?s The Hit, and so are his accomplices, ?super agent? Nicole Vance and Julie Getty. But this book is Robie?s show all the way, where he is required to hunt down
CIA agent-turned-traitor Jessica Reel.
Only, Reel is Robie?s colleague from the past and the only one in the agency to match up to him. And, is she really a traitor?
As expected, action leaps off every single page of the book, with Reel and Robie matching wits and weapons page after page. In one instance, Robie barely survives being killed by Reel, and is lucky to be just ?partially roasted?.
Around the middle, Robie and Reel team up to uncover a nefarious plan of apocalypse that involves government insiders at the highest level. And there blurs the fine line of who is on the right side and who on the wrong.
Amid explosions and falling bodies in a chase that takes both across America, Ireland and Canada, they finally uncover the plot and get the bad guys to one side, but not before a final double-cross.
Baldacci?s plot may lack the edge he had in his earlier books, but the raciness of the story more than makes up for it. Also, the readers are treated to the human side of ruthless killer Robie, that gets more pronounced in the second book of the series, much like Baldacci?s King and Maxwell series, where
the pair of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell gradually play out their emotions openly.
But then, when it comes to a racy read, Baldacci?s definitely one of the best, and as an added plus, he keeps his fans happy with his prolific writing. No complaints on that front!