Review: The Hit (Will Robie, #2) by David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)

The Hit by David Baldacci
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book.........

Will Robie returns in David Baldacci’s The Hit, the 2nd book in the Will Robie Series.

After his last disastrous mission in The Innocent, he returns home and given a new assignment.

Find Jessica Reel and do whatever it takes to eliminate her. She’s accused of going rogue after killing agents in the agency.

Jessica Reel is a fellow assassin, who he’s worked and trained with in the past and he’s baffled about her turning against the people and the company she has worked with. But this will not stop him from doing his job.

As he gets closer to Reel, certain events pertaining to this case show that there’s more to what information he has been given. And when a high level CIA boss, who he had met with to talk about his suspicions, is killed, he realizes that something is now right about his mission.

Will and Jessica come face to face they realize that to survive they will have to work together, to finding the people who are trying to kill them both. They will have to use all the skills to staying alive..

“Success or failure was always defined largely during the preparation. With good planning all one had to do was execute. Even last-second changes could be made with greater ease if the planning in the first place had been precise.”

I loved Jessica Reel!

She’s a hardened and ruthless assassin, jaded as just as lethal as Will…

“Sorry it’s come to this, Will. Only one can survive of course.” -Jessica Reel

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The chapters told from Jessica's POV give a deeper insight into her character and some of the reasons why she becomes an assassin.

“What happened to you as a child, particularly something bad, changed you, absolutely and completely. It was like part of your brain became closed off and refused to mature any further. As an adult you were powerless to fight against it. It was simply who you were until the day you died. There was no “therapy” that could cure it. That wall was built and nothing could tear it down.”
“She apparently didn't expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field.”

Will begins to question what he does. Who determines what is good or bad, or should die or live. He also has to deal with having Julie Getty, the young teenager he saved in The Innocent, in his life.

Great character development….I am very interested in Will’s boss, the Blue Man….he’s a mystery and we never discover who he really is.

Fantastic and gripping plot filled with death-defying action, tension and a gripping and dramatic climax. A total page-turner that will keep you glued to the seat of your chair!

If you love political thrillers, this series is a must!!!

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