The Hit Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BWWRRCE | Format: PDF
The Hit Description
Audie Award Finalist, Thriller/Suspense, 2013
From David Baldacci - number-one best-selling author and one of the world's most popular, widely read storytellers - comes the most thrilling novel of the year.
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.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 11 hours and 46 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: April 23, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BWWRRCE
THE HIT is the second book in the Will Robie Assassin series after The Innocent. I could barely get through The Innocent. I saw a David Baldacci book at the airport before I left for London. On the flight I started The Shining Girls, and read all three of Lauren Beukes' books by the time we were flying back to the states. The husband picked up some Baldacci for my Kindle while in London, so on the day flight back, I started THE HIT.
It begins by pedantically explaining how the U.S. Government needs hit men and women for black ops assassinations, which is really just murder for hire. Not a leap, as other books have had the same premise, and we are now living in the post Edward Snowden America. An America where even our library book borrowing history was gathered by GWB's administration, so why would BHO's administration be any better? These assassins, specifically Will Robie and Jessica Reel, supposedly have deep-seeded issues that make them the perfect killing machines to rid America of undesirables and threats in our own, and other countries.
Will Robie is the de facto killing machine, and he is sent after Reel when it is discovered that she killed one of their operatives. Robie blithely follows what "Blue Man" and his other superiors tell him to do, hunting down Reel. 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? Then it starts to become droll. Reel is actually fighting a systemic internal problem that is all about preserving the end of the world as we know it, for the rich. A think-tank employee, and what actually reliable papers come out of a think tank?!, turned middle-of-nowhere conspiracy theorist with a militia, is tracked down by Reel because of a paper he wrote.
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