| Web London, a member of the FBIs elite Hostage Rescue Team, roars into a darkened alley one night with his team members, only to be ambushed seconds later--and hes the sole survivor--and the cloud of suspicion is upon him. Riddled with questions and guilt, he seeks the help of psychiatrist Claire Daniels, as he searches to discover what really happened that deadly night, as forces from all sides try to stop him. |
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 Last Man Standing |
| Review Date: July 28, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Marcus Bass, |
| This book pulls you in from page one and never lets you go. You will not be able to put it down. |
The worst 'thriller' I've ever come across.
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| Review Date: July 18, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Jam Mad, |
| Unbelievably bad. Many of the characters have laughable names, there's repetition of the plodding plot for readers too dumb to keep up, a lot of it is predictable and the writing is so bad there are exclamation marks sprinkled here and there to remind you that you should be excited. Appalling even for trash airport fiction. As another reviewer alluded, I spent time watching my bare in-flight seatback which was considerably less teeth-grinding an experience. Shame you can't rate a book with no stars. |
"The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long." Jean Baptiste Poquelin Mollieri
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| Review Date: July 9, 2010 |
| Reviewer: michael a. draper, Guilford, CT |
Web London's FBI Hostage Rescue Team is lured into a trap, caught in a crossfire and slaughtered. He is the only survivor.
One witness to the team's massacre is a ten year old named Kevin Westbrook. He's the younger brother of a drug dealer named Big F. After the shooting, Kevin disappears.
Knowing that he needs to deal with the emotional effects of the loss of his team members, Web goes to a psychiatrist, Claire Daniels. As he tells her about his past, we learn of the anguish and the guilt that he feels that he's alive and couldn't do anything to save his team mates.
FBI supervisor, Percy Bates meets with Rancall Cove, the undercover agent who was giving officials details about what the building contained, that was the subject of the raid. Cove suggests that one group is controlling the Oxycontin flow from rural areas to the major cities in the East Coast. Cove believes that the drugs could be coming from small pockets in Appalicia.
I enjoyed the book and feel that Web London is one of the author's better protagonists. He's easy to sympathise with, compassionate, and dedicated. The interaction between Web and Claire Davis was well done and left me hoping for more.
The author also provided a number of plot twists that caught me totally unaware. |
Great quick read
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| Review Date: January 4, 2010 |
| Reviewer: H. Newman, Washington DC |
| It takes a while to get in to the plot, but once it does, don't plan anything. |
I was surprised by the twists
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| Review Date: December 16, 2009 |
| Reviewer: M. Emrich, Denver, Co. |
| The most recent review before mine has the spoiler that I am about to discuss and it is about Web London's being hypnotized. I picked up on that quite awhile before it was revealed but there were still many surprises and complexities to the plot that at the end of the day had me involved and intrigued. Baldacci creates a host of rich characters in "Last Man Standing", and I am quite surprised at the relatively weak rating it has here. I mean it is a true page turner, and I can't see how many readers would disagree with this fact. Although many obviously have. Maybe not Baldacci's best novel, but far from his worst as well. |
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