The Hit first published in 2013 is the second book in the Will Robie series by David Baldacci. This is yet another brilliant book by David Baldacci which readers will love. Doug Jacobs is a CIA analyst just doing his job when he is shot and shortly after Jim Gelder the number two at the CIA is executed. Both have been shot by an assassin unknown to any American law enforcement agency. Eventually the assassin is identified by the CIA as one of their own killing machines. Will Robie is tasked to deal with the problem told by me to bring her in and by another senior agent to kill her. Robie has to work through some very conflicting sides within the CIA and both sides know neither of them can go anywhere need the FBI or the Department of Homeland Security. It is a race against time and an unknown enemy he needs to get ahead but with so many competing interests it is not going to be easy. Maybe the only person he can trust is the person he is tasked to find. A fantastic thriller.

Although I finished this book I feel somewhat let down. It is quite near the end when we discover just what the endgame of the traitors is, not to mention who they are, and by that point I'd almost lost interest. This was due mainly to the promised epic showdown whimpering out with barely a mention!! Despite ramping up the tension a notch or two it just didn't induce the white knuckle, breath-holding tension I've come to expect from Baldacci. The only thing which kept me reading was the interplay between Robie and Reel, two very interesting individuals with a profound sense of right and wrong in-spite of their career choices. Also I was intrigued by Blue Man - Good? Bad? - I really wasn't sure. This had so much potential but just misses out on the fourth star.

Sorry to say not as good as his previous books, still had a few twists to keep you going. Just did not get the tension.