One chance to make it safely home to find out what has happened to fellow agent Jessica Reel following their last deadly mission together.

Last seen in rural Colorado, Blue Man had taken a rare vacation to go fly fishing in his hometown when he disappeared off the grid. From a writing standpoint, the execution rather quickly dives into - and stays in - the realm of "you've got to be kidding. However, the plot itself was not very intriguing this time, and its many sub-plots/story-threads were too much scattershot all over the places.

Will and Jess had a ‘moment’ at the end of the last book but when this book opens they’ve not seen each other for six months and Will’s at a bit of a loss as to why. David published his first novel, Absolute Power, in 1996; the feature film adaptation followed, with Clint Eastwood as its director and star. Baldacci tackles other social issues with the same sort of shallowness, but perhaps I'm asking to much from the genre. El libro en sí no está mal, en la línea de los anteriores, aunque con un "peliculerismo" general que no le ayuda demasiado. When Reel and Robie arrive, they find a town with a stagnant economy, an understaffed police force, and camps recruiting people with dangerous ideologies.

The story line wasn't bad, but the canned responses, and the way the Real has turned into a predictable "bad-ass woman trying to prove herself in a man's world" made this book a bore.

I've been a fan of his since Camel Club but his Will Robie/Jessica Reel stuff is terrible compared to his earlier books. I enjoy Baldacci and his series, but can only hope that if he is losing his passion for these two, that he will tie things off and turn his gaze onto his well-developed newer series, which also packs a punch. However, Reel seems to have had a change of heart after the events in the last book and Robie is both hurt and confused about it. This is what a popcorn action thriller novel should be like but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. As Will and Jessica work the clues, suspects and background information is revealed piece by piece, and the two argue and bicker over Jessica being distant from Will without explanation.

It was like they were a super-villain but not nearly smart, cool, and interesting enough to carry it off. In total, David has published 49 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers, and several have been adapted for film and television. I could see things playing out and was impressed with the pace and forward movement, but cannot say that I was kept up late into the night reading or wondering. The only reason that I read this one now, before reading those, was because when the book was released I placed a recommendation at my library that they purchase it and received a notification that it had became available.I read the first two, The Innocent and The Hit, but have not had an opportunity to read the third and fourth volumes in the series.

They've healed as much as humanly possible, but Jessica's mind is still reeling (another pun intended) - leaving in limbo the "connection" they formed during a previous joint venture. Much later, when David thanked her for being the spark that ignited his writing career, she revealed that she’d given him the notebook to keep him quiet, "because every mom needs a break now and then. Their developing closeness than pulling away from each other adds conflict to an all-ready exciting and tense relationship. And just as unputdownable from the very first page to the very last like all the other of this brilliant series.After a harrowing mission in London, Will Robie is summoned to see the new Director of Central Intelligence. So there’s that contradiction, which is enjoyable (I mean, cheesy dialog has its moments) but not the norm for these characters.