A thriller works if a reader can’t turn the pages quickly enough. So David Baldacci’s End Game (2017) certainly works. Yet readers who do slow down long enough to take a breath may notice the plot fails the reality test. (Of course, this is probably true of most thrillers, especially when body counts rival that of John Hersey’s Hiroshima, yet seemingly without repercussions, let alone headlines.)In this the fifth installment in the Will Robie series, featuring another government marksman named Jessica Reel, Robie and Reel are ordered to find their boss, whom they call Blue Man. Blue Man has disappeared while on a fishing vacation in eastern Colorado, where he grew up. There seem to be no clues, but there are plenty of villainous characters, most of them neo-Nazis who outnumber local law enforcement and so operate with impunity. Our heroes have one confrontation after another with these guys without finding Blue Man.
It turns out eastern Colorado has villains even more evil than these Nazis, and we observe as Robie and Reel take them out one by one. You may not believe it, but you will love it.
As an added bonus, Baldacci also gives us a love triangle almost as believable as the body count.
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