It also features Oliver Stone, the “leader” of the Camel Club – stars of Baldacci’s strongest series of the same name.

This is apparently set between the second and third full-length novels starring Will Robie, but it was the first thing I read that features him. But is this just a simple bank job, or are the robbers after something even more valuable – and dangerous – than the cash in the vault? Will Robie is closing in on his next target when he finds himself in the middle of a bank heist – and he’s taken hostage alongside Oliver Stone. Worlds collide when government assassin Will Robie is caught in the crossfire with Oliver Stone and the Camel Club. I’m not sure why I didn’t get around to posting reviews of them sooner, but I wanted to mention them here. I also read them quite a while ago, in preparation for the release of The Target.

I really enjoyed all three of these stories. Perhaps there are good reasons for her erratic behaviour but to find out Robie has to risk everything and go off-radar himself.īaldacci's strong characters drive the plot.Two novels and a short story introducing a new hero from one of the modern masters of thriller fiction… Why don't his orders make sense? Why does Jessica keep texting him? What is she trying to say? Why didn't she kill him when she had the chance? With Washington high-ups increasingly nervous about who will be next and neo Nazis stockpiling weapons, Robie suddenly discovers he can think for himself after all. When fellow assassin Jessica Reel starts shooting their bosses he is sent in pursuit with orders to eliminate her. Robie is a government assassin, a man with no conscience who unquestioningly follows orders.Įxcept it's not quite that simple. Perhaps his best known protagonists are the secret service agents turned private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell but Robie, can't be far behind. He juggles between heroes rather like running his own security agency. This is his 26th book, and while he's always been popular in the States it was only last year that he topped the bestseller lists over here with The Innocent and its hero Will Robie.īaldacci is unusual among thriller writers in that he isn't identified with one character.

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