Although the reader is aware that the agency that Robie works for is CIA, nowhere in the book it is mentioned explicitly though. The pace of the plot progresses gradually, by giving the readers a glimpse of the missions an assassin undertakes, how he handles them and how he disappears after. I wonder if we will have a solution, moderately even, for such a problem. A problem that will only compound as years progress in the electronic side. It is a very real problem to everyone, as much as the web and internet is helping, it is creating evils too. One off the side comment from Baldacci in Robie's pondering was about how teenagers and young adults are so concentrated on their phones, always with earbuds in the ears listening to something and living in a virtual world that is more dangerous than the real world.

My review of books by Castle including the Derrick Storm novels can be found here. Also referring Agent Nicole as Nikki takes me to Nikki Heat books by Richard Castle. And this place reminded me of Derrick Storm novels by Richard Castle - more around the fact that a mission for Derrick Storm goes really bad in Tangier. One of the mission that Robie is involved in happens in Tangier. Although his character is still a mystery and we might know more about him as the books progress. Of course, don't forget Blue Man - Robie's benefactor in his missions. And sure enough we see them in this first book itself and a lot is told about them and their relationship with Robie. Since I had already met the teenager Julie Getty and FBI Special Agent Nicole 'Nikki' Vance in the book The Target, and knowing they were repeat characters, I was curious how their stories emerged. And the pieces of puzzle just keep piling up for Robie before he can figure out what the hidden agenda is.

To add to it he is tagged along by a teenager who is in as much danger as he is in. In the first installment, Robie is sent on a mission in his own backyard, a mission that doesn’t add up at all. These are his stories in this series by David Baldacci.Īs I had mentioned in my review of the fourth book in the series, The Target, I couldn’t resist to pick up the first book in the series.

He works solo taking up hard to difficult assignments in making United States and the world a better place in the only way they can. Government Assassin working for CIA who is sent out in covert operations usually to take somebody out, more precisely someone who is an enemy to United States in any manner.

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