{"id":8223,"date":"2019-12-22T16:31:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=8223"},"modified":"2019-12-22T16:31:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T21:31:45","slug":"end-game-by-david-baldacci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/22\/end-game-by-david-baldacci\/","title":{"rendered":"“End Game” by David Baldacci"},"content":{"rendered":"

Copyright 2017 by Columbia Rose Ltd. Published by Grand Central Publishing.<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the 5th book in the series featuring the one-man army named Will Robie.\u00a0 The book starts with Robie in London single-handedly wiping out a band of 16 terrorists.\u00a0 But he is on the outs with his equally-lethal girlfriend, Jessica Reel, who while Robie was occupied in London was in Iraq wiping out about 40 insurgents, including a bunch in armored cars.\u00a0 She was the only one of her team of 16 to survive, but her mission was counted as a success.\u00a0 So the body count is hovering around 70 before the main story even begins.<\/p>\n

What is the main story?\u00a0 “Blue Man” – the boss of both Robie and Reel – has gone missing while vacationing in Colorado.\u00a0 They are both called back to the US and sent, together, to Colorado, to find Blue Man.\u00a0 They encounter a small town in which the law – a sheriff and a deputy and a few remote state troopers – are outnumbered by skinheads and survivalists.\u00a0 They make little progress for several days, but then have some run-ins with the skinheads.\u00a0 They kill a few and eventually are captured by them.\u00a0 They are seconds away from dying when they are miraculously saved.\u00a0 Who saves them?\u00a0 Well, I won’t reveal that, but it is just one of several surprises that pop up as the body count continues to soar.\u00a0 The deaths in this little town are coming so fast that bodies have to be imported from outside just to replenish the population.<\/p>\n

It is all great action and fun, if you like death.\u00a0 The whole thing was a bit over the top for me. But it did keep me turning the pages.<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert: they kill all the bad guys, find Blue Man and return him to Washington, safe and sound, and their romance is rekindled.\u00a0 But you knew that. That is just how Robie and Reel roll.<\/p>\n

6 out of 10.<\/p>\n

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