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xkay_readsx's review against another edition
5.0
A really great read, I couldn't put it down. This book, although very different from the other three is very good.
Two things in the book that make little sense to me are:
- Men in black with guns doesn't really fit into the story. Possibly to add more action.
- Encounter with the "bad guy" at the end. Come on...two pro assassins vs. one bad guy and .... really?!!
I love the book anyway.
Two things in the book that make little sense to me are:
- Men in black with guns doesn't really fit into the story. Possibly to add more action.
- Encounter with the "bad guy" at the end. Come on...two pro assassins vs. one bad guy and .... really?!!
I love the book anyway.
scott_a_miller's review
5.0
The best Robie book yet even though it was the most different. The character was completely fleshed out, finally. Great mystery too.
looneytunes_ana's review against another edition
3.0
⭐⭐⭐
I don't know what to write about a thriller without giving away the plot.
The reason I picked up Baldacci is because a friend raved about it. So I had higher hopes. The book itself was very engaging and I read it 2 sittings. But I guessed the killer third of the way through which in itself isn't a bad thing. But the motivation of the characters and the some of the plot points made me not like the book as much
I don't know what to write about a thriller without giving away the plot.
The reason I picked up Baldacci is because a friend raved about it. So I had higher hopes. The book itself was very engaging and I read it 2 sittings. But I guessed the killer third of the way through which in itself isn't a bad thing. But the motivation of the characters and the some of the plot points made me not like the book as much
krismarley's review
3.0
Damn, Will Robie! You can read to me any day of the week.
Sexy narrator voice on audio book!
Sexy narrator voice on audio book!
metros232's review
2.0
Too many coincidences and implausible angles to many this higher rated. The "twist" at the end requires the "evil" character to monologue and explain every single reason they did what they did prior to killing their victim instead of, you know, killing their victim. Such a bad cliche. The way characters are saved is also implausible. The fact that Robie and Reel are apparently allowed to go investigate crimes as if they're detectives and no one stops them, especially the actual detectives, is also ridiculous.
sunny76's review against another edition
5.0
I did not see that coming... if I said anything more, I would spoil the twists in this twisted, yes, twisted novel. So many authors have written about the father / son relationship, that you might think you don't want to read another. Read this one!
manixwolf's review
3.0
Really enjoyed the fast pace of this novel as well as the back woods, rural Mississippi setting, but the ending was a bit of a stretch. The kind of thing that makes you say, "Oh c'mon! Really??!!" Still, some rich characters and some good action kept me going throughout.
ncrabb's review against another edition
4.0
I started this book on a quiet, lazy Sunday afternoon, and within the first five minutes, it felt like I had done two hours of hard running on an up-hill track minus the fatigue. The audio version of this is so super-rich with sound effects and music and with nicely engineered audio that it ads hugely for me to the book. If someone is talking into a walkie-talkie, for example, the engineers made it sound like that was happening for real. So rich were the extras that I felt I was actually just watching an audio-described movie. Usually, I resent the cheesy music that sighted people apparently can’t do without in their audio books. But in the case of this one, the music actually helped build tension.
Will Robie has served the United States well as a clandestine killer. He has gone where others would not, and he has done particularly tricky jobs that others simply don’t have the steady hand to do. But on one such job, he kills a four-year-old child who inadvertently enters the kill zone as Robie was about to take out her father. That killing unnerved him, as you might imagine, and the next time the CIA asks him to pull the trigger, he sees an imaginary little boy in the gun’s optics.
This hallucination happens at the same time Will gets a call from his long-estranged home alerting him to the fact that his father, an influential judge, has been accused of murdering a member of the community, and he has refused any help.
Realizing that he needs a break from being a killing machine, and against his better judgment, Will returns to the Mississippi town of his youth—a town he left mysteriously at the end of his senior year vowing to never return or have any communication with his dad. That’s a promise he keeps for two decades. But always he wonders about the girl. Laura was an intelligent, pretty girl with whom Will had hoped to start a life. She was from the community’s upper crust; Will, despite his lawyer dad, wasn’t nearly so elite. Indeed, it is that troubled abusive relationship with his ex-Marine dad that drove Wil out of the community and out of Dan Robie’s life for those 20 years.
Lots of changes greet Will on his return home. His dad has remarried, and she’s a woman about Will’s age. She has borne her judge husband a son who either cannot or will not communicate verbally. More jolting still for Will is the fact that dear old Dad and his new bride bought the home once owned by Laura’s parents.
Despite his father’s brutal rejection upon his arrival, Will determines that he’s going to find a way to help the old man beat the murder charge. And when the folks realize that Will is intent on finding the real killer, it is Will who must maneuver the twists and turns that such a search involves.
This is magnificently narrated and so vividly written that you can’t help but feel as if you’re in Mississippi encloaked in humidity and a kind of heat that isn’t strictly weather related. Those who have even a casual interest in audio production/engineering should probably listen to this just to see some of the efforts made to make the book even more realistic.
Will Robie has served the United States well as a clandestine killer. He has gone where others would not, and he has done particularly tricky jobs that others simply don’t have the steady hand to do. But on one such job, he kills a four-year-old child who inadvertently enters the kill zone as Robie was about to take out her father. That killing unnerved him, as you might imagine, and the next time the CIA asks him to pull the trigger, he sees an imaginary little boy in the gun’s optics.
This hallucination happens at the same time Will gets a call from his long-estranged home alerting him to the fact that his father, an influential judge, has been accused of murdering a member of the community, and he has refused any help.
Realizing that he needs a break from being a killing machine, and against his better judgment, Will returns to the Mississippi town of his youth—a town he left mysteriously at the end of his senior year vowing to never return or have any communication with his dad. That’s a promise he keeps for two decades. But always he wonders about the girl. Laura was an intelligent, pretty girl with whom Will had hoped to start a life. She was from the community’s upper crust; Will, despite his lawyer dad, wasn’t nearly so elite. Indeed, it is that troubled abusive relationship with his ex-Marine dad that drove Wil out of the community and out of Dan Robie’s life for those 20 years.
Lots of changes greet Will on his return home. His dad has remarried, and she’s a woman about Will’s age. She has borne her judge husband a son who either cannot or will not communicate verbally. More jolting still for Will is the fact that dear old Dad and his new bride bought the home once owned by Laura’s parents.
Despite his father’s brutal rejection upon his arrival, Will determines that he’s going to find a way to help the old man beat the murder charge. And when the folks realize that Will is intent on finding the real killer, it is Will who must maneuver the twists and turns that such a search involves.
This is magnificently narrated and so vividly written that you can’t help but feel as if you’re in Mississippi encloaked in humidity and a kind of heat that isn’t strictly weather related. Those who have even a casual interest in audio production/engineering should probably listen to this just to see some of the efforts made to make the book even more realistic.
cmains90's review
4.0
4 stars only because I really enjoyed how different this was from the first three and I liked up until about the last 10 chapters.
Other than that, there were way too many characters without a reasoning, almost makes it seem like it was to confuse the reader. Also the ending was super lame and super cheesy.
It’s a fun action-packed novel, but nothing spectacular in my opinion.
Other than that, there were way too many characters without a reasoning, almost makes it seem like it was to confuse the reader. Also the ending was super lame and super cheesy.
It’s a fun action-packed novel, but nothing spectacular in my opinion.