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Summary: Starts ordinary, but gets better and better.
Review: Pity the poor FBI. They almost never get any positive press. Either it's the so-called true mess that the bureau has been in ever since J. Edgar Hoover, to the disdain shown for it in fiction such as "Silence of the Lambs" and "Hannibal". Everybody seems to have it in for these guys. Thus is starts in "Last Man Standing". We have the story of an FBI agent who is the only survivor of the massacre of his Hostage Rescue Team. There is big initial suspicion about him from the FBI, which at worse thinks he's part of the murders, and at best an incompetent who is responsible for getting people killed. The portrayal of the bureau as less than a great organization continues here, as well as what starts to be a routine novel about someone needing to clear himself of false charges. But it gets better, both as a more original story, and in it's treatment of the FBI. First of all, the hero, Web London, doesn't exactly know what happened to him, and this doesn't help his case. But as he eventually proves he's not to blame, his employers eventually become a bit more sympathetic. Part of what makes the novel interesting is the "treatment" he receives from a psychiatrist, a woman named Claire Daniels. That she not only helps find out what happened during the massacre, but also gets into some problems going back to boyhood make it more than the usual crime novel. I also like that they could have wound up the novel many pages before it does, but keeps it going, and keeps you guessing long after you think everything is wrapped up. Getting every last piece of information is worth the wait of reading the entire book.
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Summary: Last Man Standing
Review: Having read all of Baldacci's book I was disappointed in the quality of this story. It was an unbelievable plot and insulting to the reader. Maybe the author needs to take a rest from "thrillers" and go back to writing books more like "Wish You Well"
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Summary: Bad Hollywood Movie
Review: I'll make this review short and to the point, unlike the book. It's totally cheesy. Hollywood will most likely get a hold of this one. Don't waste your time.
Rating: 
Summary: a great read
Review: Although it really should have been a little shorter, I enjoyed the psychological aspects in the book. I had a little trouble getting into the book, but I kept going, and I anm glad I did.
Rating: 
Summary: Unreadable
Review: I could not make it past 100 pgs. I liked his other books, but this one is not good.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointed
Review: FBI Agent Web London was a member of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team Charlie. He is feeling survivor's guilt after his team was decimated in an ambush leaving him the sole survivor. Web is not sure why he survived or why he froze before the ambush took place. In order to be able to make sense of it all he hires psychiatrist Claire Daniels to help him understand what happened. They uncover a conspiracy involving many players as well as a personal vendetta by one of them. I read and enjoyed most of David Baldacci's novels except this one. The story dragged on for too long and I felt things could have resolved in fewer pages. There is too long a gap between characters and there were several setups in the novel which were a little too convenient. The book in itself has no ending. There is a conversation between Web and his psychiatrist in which he feels that he was betrayed. So he storms out. Will there be a sequel? Probably. Hopefully Baldacci's next work will be better and stronger. For anyone who has not read this author before I strongly recommend THE WINNER and THE SIMPLE TRUTH.
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Summary: Last Man Standing - W.London
Review: This book is a little disappointing for me. I've been a fan of Baldacci since a few years. I've read Total Control, Brethren, Wish you well and The Winner. If you're familiar with Baldacci and expect something out of the usual then this is the book but unfortunately I find the story to be illogical and the facts are being supplied and the explanation a little to "amazing" for me to believe in. If you're a big fan, pick the book with a discount as I did (20% off). If you're new with Baldacci definitely you should pick his early and better titles.
The Winner would rate 5 stars and Total Control as well. Brethren would be 4 stars and This last book would be around 2.5 to 3 stars. =)
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Summary: A Nice Return to the Genre
Review: After stepping out of the suspense genre with the remarkable "Wish You Well", Baldacci returns in good form with "Last Man Standing". After his hiatus writing "Wish..." he seems to find his stride again in suspense. A much stronger bok than "Saving Faith", it propels the reader through a story that seems to take a new twist at each turn of the plot.
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Summary: Close but no cigar!
Review: I will have to give this book, 3 stars. I enjoyed it, but toward the end things were sloppy. First though. Romano was a great character. Funny too. Okay, here is my beef. It was not until very deep in the book that anyone actually wondered why a 10 year old kid was in an alley in the early AM hours. Also Claire is not at all a great therapist. Here she was, with Web under hipnosis and Romano walks in. She didn't stop the hypnosis, she didn't seem worried that the others persons words he spoke would ruin Web's hypnosis, either. Also, why and how would a psychologist person know about a wiring device, a bug. She glanced at it and just boom, new what is was. And of course, her office going blank while hit that web site. If it was just her office alone, that is shaddy. If it were part of that floor, then most of the devices in the closet would have been dark too. Very hard to detail. Also, the whole dialogue part with Obannon and Strait, toward the end. Didn't seem to fit, more explanation than story. Striat was the man who ran the major drug trade. Well, when we find this out in the book, he was believed to be up in KY selling horses. His boss was asked to stay behind by the FBI., this trip. Well, Strait's boss was believed to always go on these trips, so how did straight sell his product on those times. It is just too easy that he sells it this time when the FBI asked his boss to say. And his boss had said he most of the trips. I think something should have been said about this man who planned so well and how he planed sales when his boss was around. I think the novel is great, only that the last hundred pages seem rush and take the power out of the first part of the book.
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Summary: Convoluted tale that is not author's best
Review: I've enjoyed David Baldacci's books before . . . in fact, I
particularly enjoyed his last novel (WISH YOU WELL) because
it was so different from his previous efforts; i.e., it was not a
conventional thriller . . . but Baldacci reverts back to form with
LAST MAN STANDING, a rather convoluted tale of an FBI
agents surrounded by a conspiracy of violence . . . I wanted
to care for the main character; however, by the end of this
book that is far too long, I only was sticking around to see what happened . . . and then I was disappointed in the
ending. There was often excessive description, along with gratuitous
violence . . . only the dialogue held my attention . . . it at
last felt "real" to me. In addition, I did like the following passages:
* Web had not anticipated this sort of mental process from
Strait. He thought he had big, dumb Neanderthal figured out,
and here the guy was being thoughtful and maybe even
sensitive. "I take it you've been around horses a long time." "All my life. Folks think they can figure them out. You can't.
You just have to go with the flow and never make the mistake
of thinking you have them pegged. That's wen you get yourself
hurt." "Sounds like a good formula for people too." Strait almost
smiled, Webb noted. Almost. * After being divorced for so long, Claire was close to accepting
that she would forever remain single. There were a few eligible men
in the social circles where she mingled and none of them had
captured her interest. She had girlfriends always on the lookout
to fix her up with yet another tech mini-mogul or lawyer, but she
found them to be so egotistical and self-centered that she figured
marrying one of them wouldn't be all that different from remaining
single. As a rebuke, she had asked one very self-involved high-tech
chap at a party if he had ever heard of Narcissus. He had wanted to
know if it was a new type of Internet software and then gone right
on talking about how fabulous he was. * As the cover slid into its holding trench at the far end of the pool,
web squatted down and examined the current-machine built into
the deep end of the pool. He looked up in time to see Gwen step
out of her sandals and slip out of her robe. She had on a one-piece
suit that was cut a little low at the bosom and a little high at the
hips and buttocks. Her body had a nice tan, and the muscles
in her thighs and calves matched those he had already seen in
her arms and shoulders. Forget the butt-burners and thigh-masters,
women should just go horseback riding.
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