Copyright 2013 by Columbus Rose Ltd. Published by Grand Central Publishing, New York.
This is #2 in the series of Baldacci books that feature Will Robie, CIA assassin. In this one Will is tasked with tracking down and killing another CIA assassin who has “gone rogue” and killed her boss and a handler. Yes, “she” – the rogue assassin is a female, Jessica Reel, a woman every bit as lethal as Will and one that he has worked with in the past. Will takes the assignment, knowing full well that Jessica will be gunning for him, just as he is gunning for her. Who will survive?
Will tracks her to a cabin on Maryland’s eastern shore. But the cabin is booby-trapped and Will barely escapes with his life, getting his arm badly burned in the process. He gets the arm treated by a CIA doctor and gets some insights into Jessica’s character and past from the new head of the CIA assassins, a woman who trained Jessica. But he also learns that strange things are happening inside the CIA. Will begins questioning his assignment, especially when he and this woman are attacked and they escape only with the assistance of a sniper who Will suspects is Jessica Reel.
Is Jessica good or bad? And what is going on in the CIA? Will returns the favor for Jessica by saving her life and they soon team up to solve the mystery of the strange happenings in the CIA. It involves a plot that has global implications.
Implausible, but a pretty good read.
6 out of 10.