Review: First rate novella
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
Baldacci presents a tight knit fast moving novella (it's a bit too long to qualify as a "short story") in which Oliver Stone, the legendary ex-CIA agent of the Camel Club,  finds himself in the same bank as the government's top assassin Will Robie, whom Stone has never met but quickly figures out is a disciple of someone whom Stone worked with long ago. Stone knows Robie must have a target and wonders if it is Stone, whom readers of Baldacci will know has had  major friction with the CIA since retiring.But before Stone can figure this out, a team of armed persons takes over the bank. Stone and Robie soon realize that what is planned is not a bank robbery but something far more serious that will leave both of them as well as all the other bank personnel dead if they don't stop it.This is well written, exciting, and well developed within the boundaries for a novella. Definitely entertaining and worth reading.