This latest adventurous mystery by David Baldacci has everything in it – chills, spills, high-speed chases, commando action, kidnapping, hypnotism, drugs, fighting and what not. The fast pace is good, but tends to slow down whenever Web starts thinking and analyzing in circles. Though the build up of the suspense is fine, we both thought that the ending was quite up to the rest of the book and fell just a little flat. However, we still rate it 4-Stars.
SUMMARY: This is the story of one man, a special FBI agent by the name of Web London, who returns from the jaws of death only to find himself an outcast, a pariah amongst his very own people. Web London is a part of a highly specialized and elite Hostage Rescue Team that get ambushed while on a very treacherous but routine mission in a hazardous part of D.C. For some baffling reason, Web freezes just before the bullet bombardment starts and falls paralyzed to the ground, watching helplessly as his friends and unit members meet grisly deaths.
A stunned and heartbroken Web walks away almost unhurt from the scene of the carnage, only to find himself the center of a raging controversy as friends look at him with suspicion, widows blame him for being alive, colleagues no longer trust him and the authorities are out to crucify him. Under intense pressure, Web seeks the help of psychiatrist Claire Daniels. He has only thing on his mind and that is to find why he, and only he, survived that deadly trap. With Claire’s help, he starts to investigate his own traumatic past and repressed memories to find a clue to his mystifying paralysis.
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