Review: The Target by David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)

The Target by David Baldacci
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Will Robie & Jessica Reel, master assassins, are back …..on a super secret mission together!

The Target, the 3rd book in David Baldacci’s Will Robie Series begins with Will Robie, back in Washington DC and receiving a medal for his successful mission in Syria.

Will and Jessica have been given a new and very secret mission but before they receiving the details of it, both are sent to The Burner Box, a CIA training facility in North Carolina to be tested if they are capable of carrying it out. But they believe that there’s something more sinister about the reason given by the present director of the CIA, Evan Tucker for disobeying orders and the killing of two high CIA officials. This is world where nothing is what it seems to be.

” It was live ammo. In Reel’s and Robie’s world there always came a time when there was no other kind.”

” Surviving the grueling experience, Will and Jessica are sent to France – their secret assignment? Kill the North Korean leader, General Pak. Things go horribly wrong with the general committing suicide. In retaliation, the North Korean government sends one of their top agents, Chung-Cha to assassinate the US president and his family.

We first meet Chung-Cha at Bukchang, the most horrific internment camp in North Korea where we see the horrors and tortured she endured

and how it made her become one of the most cold-blooded and lethal assassin, even more dangerous than Will and Jessica.

“She did not believe in a benign higher being. She could not. She had suffered too much to think of a heavenly force in the sky that would let such evil walk the earth without lifting a hand to stop it.”

The story is told through multiple POVs which allows the readers to see into each character’s minds that gives us more information about each one’s thoughts and feelings.

The author has created two characters, Will and Jessica, that you cannot help but like and admire, even knowing that these are two of the most dangerous and lethal killers. There’s something deep inside them that makes you feel that there is goodness in them. Something that humanizes them. We also see that humanity in Chung-Cha at the end….(view spoiler)[Chung-Cha had adopted a young girl, Min, who she had rescued from the very camp she had spent all those painful years in. She takes Min with her on her mission and wanting to save her life, turned on her own allies, which resulted in her being killed. Will and Jessica then take Min to live with Julie and her guardian. (hide spoiler)]This was such a sad part in the story……makes you want to believe that there’s some good inside each one of us.

At times, the plot seemed so far-fetched and in some weird way it’s still kind of believable. Gripping tension, action-packed with twists and turns that popped up at the most unexpectedly times.

A great continuation to this series.

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