Title: The Hit
Author: David Baldacci
Format: hardback book
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Page Count: 392
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, equally professional and dangerous, Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she’s gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency. To stop one of their own, the government looks again to Will Robie. His mission: bring in Reel, dead or alive. Only a killer can catch another killer, they tell him. But as Robie pursues Reel, he quickly finds that there is more to her betrayal than meets the eye. Her attacks on the agency conceal a larger threat, a threat that could send shockwaves through the U.S. government and around the world.
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This is my first book by David Baldacci, I am not real familiar with the author and have not read any of his books before. The book started off really neat because it started off with an assassination taking place, and then after that it became almost like a cat and mouse game. Reel was assassinating people and Robie was trying to catch here and as he tried she off assassinating someone else. The story revolves around two of the US government’s top assassins, Will Robie and Jessica Reel. It all starts when an assignment to assassinate a Middle Eastern politician ends in the death of the man who is supervising the entire operation. The suspected killer is the agency’s only woman assassin, Jessica Reel. The agency now considers her a rogue agent and a murderer. To find Reel, the agency ropes in its best operative, Will Robie.
Reel is aware that she is being hunted down and that she has very little time to complete the task she has set out for herself. She needs to make sure she takes care of the people in her list, after she manages to target the agency’s number two, things are getting extremely difficult for her. Then, Robie finds out that tracking down Reel is not going to be easy. To make things more difficult, it seems the files the agency has given him are incomplete. He begins to feel that there is more to the case than meets the eye. As Will Robie is about to catch a break, the person he is meeting gets attacked and is shot before she could give him more information.
In a conversation Robie had with Tucker, Tucker said to Robie,” this country gave her the skills she’s now using against us,” that is pretty scary because its true the skills that all these FBI agents and federal employee’s are trained on how to take down necessary people, and to have them turn on their own muchless the country does not settle well with me, now I know this is just a book, but think about it. It could and might really happen.
I think that this is a book that anyone would enjoy! Especially anyone interested in CIA, FBI, federal governments, murder , and the list goes on. This was a good book but in all honesty it was long and took me longer to read then usual. It wasn’t bad, just long. I was disappointed that I didn’t finish fast because it is a book that I was drawn too. I did think this book was suspenseful in a way because each of the assassins is working on catching the other or on their own and then as you read further, there is a twist. Read it!!!
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