Last man standing by David Baldacci
Book review
Genre Fiction thriller!
No spoilers
Rating 3.5/5
David Baldacci is back after Wish you well and how! Though I loved Wish you well but I really want to read David Baldacci for the thrillers and not drama!
No spoilers since the whodunnit will simply blow your mind!
One thing I would like to comment, if you have a captive and you describe how he or she plans for escape and then escapes only to be caught then please don’t waste 30-40 pages in that! Just say he tried to escape but was caught!
In this day and age unless you are being Murakamic metaphorical then we simply don’t have time to beat around the bush!
Ditto for describing some horse riding or other activities which finally has nothing to do either with the story or the ending!
As the title suggests, Web London is a very special FBI rescue team who goes on a mission and freezes which actually saves his life!
How and why and who is the whole story!
You have your regular FBI stories and agents with so much ego and stories and scars that it becomes a routine!
You have drug dealers who live life king-size!
You have the parents of the kid in the mission gone wrong who start their life refresh! They move off to the country and start a horse farm!
If that’s how your rein in your high horse then you have the perfect setting!
No one seems to be who they are and the person whom you least suspect turns out to be the mastermind behind everything gone wrong! I could have never guessed who and that is a major twist!
You have a hostage rescue story gone wrong and that is the one thing which glues all the characters in the story together!
It is quite remarkable how one incident affects everyone in different ways!
Then you have judges and lawyers getting killed phonetically! And you have hypnosis as the cream in the cake!
The new thing and angle in this one is the Psychiatrist which is interesting in that most of the FBI agents and their family require counseling and that’s really scary! Since the is the FBI, the confidentiality may not be concrete!
Finally the last few pages you have all the pieces of puzzles sticking together and you have the much needed closure!
All in all a typical Baldacci ride!
Just don’t be the last man standing to read this one!
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