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Summary: Carelessness reigns!
Review: I was really annoyed by the blatant grammatical errors - this book could have been proof-read by a grammar school drop-out! (or perhaps a graduate school student).Doesn't anyone care about correctusage these days? And doesn't anyone know the difference between "me" and "I" or "can" and "may"?Too, the characteristic soul searching of the protagonists is boring!
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Summary: Now this is a good book
Review: I've been a fan of David Baldacci since his first, but I really think this one ties all of his talent together so that everything works. I couldn't put this one down. Baldacci really hones his characterization skills in this novel, and I think that is its strongest suit. [...]
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Summary: Must be glue on the cover 'cause I could not put it down....
Review: David Balducci's latest is suberbly executed! His characters: Web London, a top-of-the-line HRT with the FBI; Romano, his unstoppable side-kick; Bates, his mentor and superior; Clair, his 'shrink'; Gwen, the luscious mother of the son Web failed to save; Billy, Gwen's husband who loves to shock people with the mannequin in the closet of their vast and luxurious horse ranch, and the list goes on and on.
From the very first to the very last page,Balducci spins us along. catching us in the web of intrigue, deception, and gut-wrenching scenes of murder and mayhem.
Web, who is the last man standing in an ambush that wipes out all the men of his Charlie unit and is therefore now a question mark for the FBI, is so outwardly easy to read yet complicated; so macho yet so feeling; so sure of himself and his love for his job, yet so riddled with guilt and a sense of inadequacy.
Baldacci makes you a part of Web...so well written that you are truly there with him every second of his days and nights.
You are there when he freezes and can't go on...when his men die before him...when his friends turn against him..when he not only meets again, but is assigned to protect the parents of the boy he feels he failed to protect....when he is controlling his pulse before a raid...and when his bullets tear through flesh and bone. Just too much to tell you about without giving the plot away.
Take the time to pick this one up..you will enjoy every word, every conflict and every resolution...it was written by one of the best writers of our time.
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Summary: A testosterone-laden thriller, but not just for men
Review: My 80+ year old aunt introduced me to David Baldacci by recommending "The Simple Truth" a couple of years ago. I have since read all of his books and they've cost me a lot of sleep. The main review provided enough details of the plot, so I'll just add a different perspective here. Yes, there are a lot of characters and plot twists. That just means you don't want to put the book down because it's easy to forget names, but I was so drawn in that I didn't want to put it down. There's also a fair amount of detail about HRT training, which I thought was interesting even though I have never thought about owning a gun. Like many of Baldacci's other books, you don't know who to trust and often guess wrong. While the hero is male, some supporting characters are female and they are strong. That's important to me as a female reader--I HATE simpy and stupid women. Baldacci writes scenes that are easy to envision and characters that seem real. That sets him apart from many in this genre. I loved this book and hope for a sequel to keep Web London and some of the other characters alive.
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Summary: Not his best.
Review: This is the 1st Baldacci Novel that I almost stopped reading. It is far from his best. The psychiatrist character is very weak and takes up too much of the book. It has a great opening for an action novel and gets exciting near the end but there was never any doubt in how it would turn out. I easily figured out the ending long before half way. I will still try his next book but I think he fell down here - it is not a page turner.
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Summary: SHORT AND SWEET
Review: The best book you will ever read. From the main character
Web London to the ending. It is the best.
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Summary: Baldacci is like fine Wine!
Review: Outstanding Book! I devoured all 548 pages and hated to put the book down. I thought nothing could top Absolute Power and The Winner but this did! I loved the main character who is truely an Alpha-male in search of answers professionally and personally.
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Summary: Excellent Buy
Review: In my opinion, this is the best David Baldacci book to date. It started out with a lot of detail that I just skimmed. As I got into the book more, I found myself going back to re-read things I missed. It was like putting a puzzle together. Web London, senior member of the elite Hostage Rescue Team of the FBI, has led a very complicated and tragic life. As we explore parts of his childhood through his psychiarist, we see what led to the tragically failed mission in the very beginning and his unwitting part in it. All of this plays a pivotable role in the book and should not be skimmed. There are a lot of characters and events that seem at first (to this reader anyway) unrelated. Again, I found myself going backwards and re-reading as the full picture began to develop. This book is well worth the hard cover price. I'm sure I will re-read it several times.
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Summary: A testosterone-laden thriller that is a macho man's dream.
Review: "Last Man Standing" is a far cry from Baldacci's last novel, the gentle "Wish You Well". "Last Man Standing" will be a huge hit with the macho set. It has all the trappings that men love--tons of firepower (with the weaponry described in loving detail) and large doses of intrigue and violence. There is even a sexy seductress thrown in for good measure. Web London is the "Last Man Standing." He is a veteran of the FBI's elite HRT (Hostage Rescue Team) who survives an ambush that leaves all of his colleagues dead. Why did Web suddenly freeze and hold back when the rest of his team walked right into the ambush? Is Web a traitor, a coward or both? Both Web and his colleagues at the FBI would like an answer to that question. Web has other problems, as well. His face is permanently disfigured as a result of a gun battle years ago with a right wing group that, unfortunately, left a ten-year-old hostage dead. Web has never gotten over the guilt from that tragic event. Now that Web's buddies have almost all been wiped out, with him living under a cloud of suspicion, his life is barely worth living. Web decides to fight back and the book, all 548 pages of it, is the story of how Web and a few good men get to the bottom of an insidious plot to destroy Web and his team. The first scene of the book is very well done. Baldacci describes the ambush in gripping detail and it is a dynamite opening. He also populates his novel with some very colorful characters, including Big F, a huge drug dealer with a unique code of ethics, Perce Bates, an FBI man who is willing to give Web one last chance, and Gwen Canfield, a beautiful woman with an agenda of her own. There is a quasi-love interest in the psychiatrist, Claire Daniels, whom Web consults to deal with his many psychological "issues." I was thoroughly engrossed in the various plot lines that deal with drug dealing, revenge, and conspiracies. The book is fast-paced, but it is still a little too long, and the ending was more than a little far-fetched. However, Baldacci's "Last Man Standing" is an exciting roller-coaster ride, and I sense that there may be a sequel down the road for Baldacci's fans to anticipate with pleasure.
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Summary: Ponderous, Slow Moving
Review: At 540+ pages this novel could easily have lost one third of its bulk. The author beats the reader to death with the hero's mental problems and ruminations about a mysterious black child who disappears from the scene of a horrendous shootout where six FBI Hostage Rescue Team members are slaughtered. Contrary to other reviews, one of the few areas of the book that kept me interested was narrative about HRT training, weapons and assorted war stories. New characters pop up every few chapters, leading to confusion and boredom. My first (and last) Baldacci book.
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