Miriam Smith (A Mother’s Musings)'s Reviews > The Target

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