Last Man Standing - Softcover

Baldacci, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446611778 ISBN 13: 9780446611770

Publisher: Vision, 2002

Synopsis

The sole survivor of a devastating ambush, FBI Hostage Rescue Team agent Web London would do anything to find out what really happened that night--and a ten year old boy may be the unexpected key in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.

Web London was trained to penetrate hostile ground and come out alive. Then ten seconds in a dark alley cost him everything: his friends, his fellow agents, his reputation. Among his super-elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team, Web was the sole survivor of a high-tech, devastating ambush.

Now Web is trying to put his life back together and understand what really happened. To get answers, he'll need the help of psychiatrist Claire Daniels and the one other human being who lived through the attack--a ten-year-old boy. But when his search leads him back to that bloodstained alley, Web suddenly realizes he is about to face his assassin again. And this time, one of them will become the Last Man Standing.

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Review:

Last Man Standing has the essential elements of a terrific David Baldacci novel: a tough but tender-hearted hero, dirty dealings in the nation's bureaucracy and a roller-coaster plot. Web London, a member of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, froze up on a drug raid and thus became the sole survivor of a remote-controlled ambush that killed six of his compatriots. Now the only witness has disappeared and the inside man on the botched raid has gone underground.

As a pretty psychiatrist puzzles over the corners of Web's brain that kept him alive, Web himself stays on the move. He's certain that the ambush is connected to the prison escape of a neofascist leader, Ernest B Free, whom he helped arrest five years earlier, and a series of new murders leads him to a Virginia horse farm and the driving force behind all the carnage. It may seem as though Baldacci gives away the mastermind too soon, but both the bad guys and the good guys are complex enough that there's plenty of punch all the way to the last page. --Barrie Trinkle, Amazon.com

Review:

"A killer thriller...LAST MAN stands tall."--USA Today

"Engagingly fierce...Baldacci's brain-teasing plot leaves you wanting more."--People

"[This book] finds the author in his familiar bestselling territory, the seamy underbelly of the nation's bureaucracy."--Entertainment Weekly

"Riveting...fascinating...a novel that will knock readers' socks off...The intricate plot moves at breakneck speed...The reader will be breathless."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Baldacci's most accomplished thriller...The action is nearly nonstop and expertly drawn."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vision
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0446611778
• ISBN 13: 9780446611770
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 656