I can't believe I'm the only person who didn't like this book. It felt like he wrote it in a day just to get a book out. The characters were not developed at all. They came and went in the blink of an eye. The "doomsday" scenario wasn't explained thoroughly at all. Every scene they just sort of "poof", killed who they needed to kill. I thought this book was very generic.

It's with a disappointment of ample magnitude that I greeted the final chapters of this book. This proves that no book is guaranteed to excel, whoever the author. But Baldacci didn't do many things wrong. He just wasn't inspired to write another breathtaking spy novel. There was not only goodwill that carried over from the first book. There was also attachment. I cared about Will Robie, and though I knew he wouldn't die, I cared about the people who mattered to him. This book is about on the s

I know this was a good book from the fact that I struggled to put it down even for a moment, and in the end I finished it within a day. Will Robie is a great character and The Hit was double value since he was matched up with his female equivalent, Jessica Reel. Both are at the top of their game and once they started to work together they were unbeatable. Like many authors of popular crime novels and thrillers, Baldacci uses short, sharp chapters which lead into each other and keep the momentum

2nd read completed in 4/2018 on Audiobook.I am rereading these first book on audiobook and I have to say it was a great idea. I love the way the narrators brought these beloved characters to life. Will and Jessica are mirrors of each other, and the way in which Baldacci explores that relationship is beautiful. Jessica's life seems more tragic than Will. The fact that she isn't a sociopathic machine killer is a great testiment to her inner character considering the way she grew up and the fact th...

Baldacci created a scenario, incorporating contemporary government inter-agency struggles, to expose and eliminate a plot that would de-stablilize major worldwide political forces. Two US government assassins, Will Robie and Jessica Reel, set out to thwart the plot. At times, they find themselves in potentially fatal competition with each other. Baldacci blends political reality and believably constructed fiction to produce a great story.

Baldacci delivers ... again. If you like conspiracy stories chances are you will like this one. When I started reading this book I wasn't sure if I would enjoy it as much The Innocent, the first book in the series. But fortunately things picked up and didn't let up.Will Robie is a professional assassin with the CIA. He is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate our enemies, terrorists, traitors. He is not the only professional assassin with the CIA. Jessica Reel, a fellow assassin, is

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 ha...

3.75 StarsWill Robie is an exceptional CIA assassin, whose true love is his current weapon of choice. When an agency “handler” and the Deputy Director of the CIA are executed, the evidence points to another equally skilled killer, Jessica Reel, and the white paper dubbed “Apocalypse” — a recipe for eliminating menacing leaders of unstable regions, simultaneously. Initially accepting his superiors’ conclusion, Robie packs up his arsenal and sets out to hunt down and kill Jessica Reel before she c...

A great read. It had me guessing what would happen next throughout the entire book. Even when I thought I had it figured out something else was thrown in. The ending wasn't overly corny either, which is a happy relief from many books today.

David hooks his readers from the beginning.His characters are playing with fire. Audacious it was.

Q:...He checked his rearview for Vance, Reel, and assorted bogeymen.I’m not growing paranoid. I am paranoid. And who could blame me?(c)Q:Her firm core had come from agonizing exercise and careful diet. It had nothing to do with appearance. The core was power central. And fat slowed you down. In her world that was poison(c)Q:There were three ways to approach the mission. For a mission was what Jessica Reel was on.You could start from the bottom and move to the top.Or start at the top and move to

I read the first book in this series and I thought it was okay. This one had me hooked. The author has a way of balancing action with story that works really well.

There were some really entertaining moments in this book but I did not get into it as much as I did book one. I will continue the series because I do like the character of Will Robie and want to see how things go on the Jessica Reel front. If you like conspiracy types of storylines, I believe you will enjoy this book and series from what I have read. My quick and simple: good but had trouble really getting into this installment.

This is the second book in the Will Robie series.It was good, but not great for me. Lots of things happened, good plot, overall not bad. But I didn't like some of the characters' choices, they seemed convenient to move the story along, but not how the real people would act.Still a good story.Mikewww.mikeslavinauthor.com (award-winning Kill Crime-crime/thrillers)

The Hit is the second book in the Will Robie series. After that amazing first novel, one's expectations clearly rocketed. The problem with expectations though is that it most of the time lead to awful disappointment. The Hit is one of those most of the time situations.The biggest letdown of this novel would be the one and only Jessica Reel. The main reason why I liked the first book was because of Will and Julie. I just didn't see much connection from Reel and Robie. Their relationship felt re...

“Sending a killer to catch a killer actually made sense.” Jessica Reel is the hitman on a CIA black op. Charged with the elimination of an ultra-radical Muslim that the American government cannot allow to take over the leadership reins of his government, Reel turns rogue and assassinates her handler. Two more hits of senior CIA staff make it quite clear that Reel has an agenda, that she is on a vendetta against the agency, and that she must be stopped. The government has selected Will Robie f

I read the first book of the series 'The Innocent' last week, and just finished this latest offering. I am a convert now- a new follower of Baldacci! Like the first novel, this also is a very mature read (obviously, in the scheme of things of an average thriller, and not overly serious stuff). The character development is again fantastic, and this time there is another assassin in whom Will Robie finds his match. The emotions and trepidation of someone who is wired to kill in cold blood, of some...

Another page turner from David Baldacci! He is becoming one of my favorite authors of all time.

Excellent book by an excellent author. Baldacci has become one of my go-to writers if I'm in the mood for some kick ass action.

SpoilersAnother Baldacci book that will keep you turning pages; as long as you don't bother to think. Baldacci writes enjoyable books, decent dialog, characters with some depth, but in too many a rediculously silly plot ends up spoiling all the fun.In "The Hit" a CIA contract-killer turns on the Agency and begins killing fellow officers. The CIA responds by sending out another killer, our hero, Will Robie, to find her and stop her. A move so obvious that even our bad girl killer anticipates it,