Reviewed by Berls on
David Baldacci is quickly becoming a favorite author and this first book in the Will Robie series continues that trend. In fact, I think these characters have the potential to become my favorites, over Amos Decker and his friends/team..
Will Robie is a fantastic character and I really enjoyed getting to know the government hitman. He's smart and lethal (as you'd expect) but he's also softer than you'd expect from someone in such a brutal line of work. That humanizing piece made me love him all the more.
The mystery was also fantastic and I was guessing all the way to the end. This has a very different kind of cadence to the Amos Decker series as Robie is not a detective, he's a hitman being forced by circumstances to play detective. And I appreciated that he made mistakes and didn't think like a detective because of that. He's smart but he lacks that element of training and it made the story that much more fun to read.
As I've grown accustomed to with David Baldacci audios, this was narrated in a theatrical style with Ron McLarty doing the male voices and Orlagh Cassidy the female. I tend to find books narrated this way a real treat as you can really get lost in them -- all voices are believable and consistent. Looking forward to listening to the rest of the series.
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- 9 August, 2022: Reviewed