End Game: David Baldacci (Will Robie series, 5)

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Y aunque el autor podría seguir escribiendo sobre estos personajes está bien que deje de estirar el chicle, hay que saber cuándo parar. As Will and Jessica work the clues, suspects and background information is revealed piece by piece, and the two argue and bicker over Jessica being distant from Will without explanation. The evolution of their complicated relation and feelings for one another felt perfectly organic and natural for anyone who's following them from the very beginning. But, instead of being out of the country taking down its enemies, these two government assets are sent to rural Colorado on a much more personal mission. The rugged man who beds the helpless woman is not missing from this book, though the reader is surely wondering if Robie and Reel will ever master the art of sharpshooting Cupid’s arrows, rather than dodging them.

While I actually sort of enjoyed the personal angle, I did find it odd – it simply seemed to be an ‘extra’ to keep readers vested in the characters… something that was just not the norm with Baldacci. I could see things playing out and was impressed with the pace and forward movement, but cannot say that I was kept up late into the night reading or wondering. Robie and Reel soon discover that there is another group who find themselves hiding out in Eastern Colorado, armed with their millions of dollars and secretive condominiums in former military outposts, awaiting the End of Days.

I’m combining the two sections that are usually separate in my blog posts because there were a lot of things I liked, but that at the same time could be considered out of character and strange for a David Baldacci book.

Many of the main characters are ultimately irrelevant, the villains are too cookie-cutter and lack depth, and the setting isn't particularly exciting. I am familiar with the characters and their jobs but there are things that must have happened in those earlier books. The sheriff's department has their hands full trying to keep the friction between the two groups from erupting into an all out war. With over 130 million copies in print, his books are published in over 80 territories and 45 languages, and have been adapted for both feature-film and television.Will and Jess are forced to work together to work out what’s happened to the man they both admire, though know little about.

But there's a bit of a problem, as I see it, is in the execution - and I mean that as a double entendre.When Reel and Robie arrive, they find a town with a stagnant economy, an understaffed police force, and camps recruiting people with dangerous ideologies. At the end of the previous book, Will and Jessica grew closer in their developing personal relationship outside of work. David Baldacci is back with another in his hard-hitting Will Robie series, which matches an impactful thriller with some social commentary.

Together, they are informed that their handler, Roger ‘Blueman’ Walton, has gone missing during his annual vacation to Colorado.This is just my kind of book with short chapters that often end with cliffhangers so you just have to read one more chapter. I mentioned in my review of David Baldacci’s previous Will Robie book, The Guilty(published in 2015), that it wasn’t a series I knew well. Jess is no help to us because – although we’re in both of their heads – Baldacci probably identifies more with Will so it felt like we were keeping his secrets rather than Jess’s. They've healed as much as humanly possible, but Jessica's mind is still reeling (another pun intended) - leaving in limbo the "connection" they formed during a previous joint venture.