I love David Baldacci's wonderfully captivating books, they are so polished, professionally written, imaginative yet realistic and very easy to follow, so I was looking forward to reading "The Target", the third in the fantastic and exciting Will Robie series. Blurb - The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel. I adore Will Robie and Jessica Reel, they are two of the most professional, disciplined and lethal assassins alive. They are the ones the government calls in when the utmost secrecy is required and are needed to infiltrate the most hostile of countries in the world and take out the most vicious and deadly world tyrants. I haven't read the first in the series but have read the second and loved how that even though this can be read happily as a standalone, this book follows on from the very tense and compelling previous story, allowing you to fully understand and empathise with their professional relationship. I love how they work so well together, literally reading each other's minds as if it was one and constantly looking out for each other's backs, often to their own detriment. If you've read the second book you'll understand why it's so important to follow this progression of friendship as they were both tested to the most ultimate of limits in an unimaginable way. The book started with a brilliantly intriguing and compelling introduction that had me bewildered as to where the story would lead. Earl Fontaine was a fantastic character and I particularly enjoyed his part in the story immensely. Multi layered and with excellent characters - Chung-Cha was dangerously cold blooded but truly inspirational and for me was the central character to the whole book. This story really is a must read, it was so easy to follow unlike so many political thrillers and from start to finish it read like a blockbuster movie. The ending was just FANTASTIC!! Emotional, tense, exciting and compelling, I literally couldn't put it down until it was completely finished and even then I continued to give it thought. I highly recommend this series but if you can't read them all, do read this one - if you enjoy fast paced, action filled thrillers then you will not be disappointed and I've already have "The Guilty" (the fourth one) on order to enjoy reading very soon! 5 stars

The Target hits home David Baldacci the American King of the Thriller is back with style and panache with The Target, making this the third book in the Will Robie series. The Target hits home in the way that it is written you feel you are failing Will Robie if you do not continue reading. Baldacci knows how to engage with the read and give all the thrills and spills with one or two unexpected turns. Like all American thriller novels the good guy wins and the bad guy looses, even if in real life we know the CIA could not find their own arse with both hands. We learn that Will Robie and his partner Jessica Reel have returned from a near suicide mission in Syria and are not the current flavour of the month with the Director of the CIA when he puts them up for a need to know mission. They are put through it at the CIA’s Burner in the middle of nowhere, when they find out they are being sent in to North Korea on another suicide mission. At the same time Robie’s partner Jessica Reel is conflicted when her convict father reaches out for her. Little does she know that this will bring her in to a dangerous world of American Nazis and could cost her life if she goes along with their plans, but she is never one to play to the rules. Somewhere in North Korea their very special agent Chung-cha is defending the Supreme Leader at home and abroad. She has had a tough life living in one of North Korea’s concentration camps but she survives and is the regimes celebrated killer. She too has a mission he final one to America, who know an attack is coming but not knowing how or where. Robie and Reel have come to the attention of the American Presidents and are invited out to Nantucket and it will be there that the two worlds of America and North Korea collide and who is left standing will cause an international diplomatic crisis. Out of the attack will Robie and Reel be once again be the heroes or will this be their final dance with death. Will some good come out of the attack? Well you will have to read to find out. Once again David Baldacci ticks all the boxes for the reader delivering a high quality spy thriller full of thrills and spills and a good dollop of American cheesiness. The great thing about The Thriller it takes you to a world where you dream of being a hero and Robie is you by proxy and you like to kick ass! This is pure escapism spy thriller at its best, by the best American thriller writer at the moment and David Baldacci never fails to hit The Target!