End Game

What happened? How can an author who writes well crafted stories with such detail and believable plots end a series on such a sour note? I have read some excellent books written by the author, but this is the second time in ending a series the author has failed to write an engaging, in-depth and plausible novel. Why is it that the other books were focused on the plot, the in-depth plethora of possibilities and then add such nonsense without having any direction or meaning of a tale?I don’t like reading books that throw in such sexual stuff and tons of foul language in the first place, and most of the books David has written don’t include this type of stuff. So why does he add a bunch of it to the last book on top of such a weak and directionless ending?If the author has one Achilles heel, it is not knowing how to wrap up his characters like in the other novels with an intriguing plot. I love the Memory Man series he has written! With another installment due out April 2018, I just am hoping he doesn’t try to end the series with a novel sub-par like he has in End Game and his John Puller series where the ending was horrible too.Normally, I don’t write reviews if I don’t like a book. Authors work hard to put forth stories their followers will enjoy and share with friends. However, with two series ending below standards or hopes for readers, I write this with the hope the author will do a much better job with future endeavors when he decides the character’s time is up.

I have read all Baldacci’s books and loved Will but this book made me question who really wrote it. It could have been written 20 years ago because although they had all the resources of the CIA & FBI, they used no technology (ok, a satellite once). A drone would have solved most of their problems but then there would have been no point to this silly little book. I saw then ending coming but really didn’t care.

Formulaic and unbelievable. I know we're supposed to suspend disbelief when reading this type of book, but c'mon! Spoiler alert. I'm going to hide a clue for my potential rescuers. I draw an arcane figure that will be close to impossible to figure out. In the minute I take to draw the figure I could have just written the name of the site and drawn a map. Ridiculous. Likewise, I have a multi-million dollar illegal operation and need to protect it from federal and local agents. I've taken them captive, but instead of just killing them, I keep one captive for weeks and then I decide to let them all go so I can hunt them down. And just like in a cheesy horror movie, we can all predict who is going to die during the great escape.I'm done with the Will Robie series. I want to like the protagonists, but there's just too much angst and soul searching. Mr. Baldacci must be wealthy by now and he seems to have become bored with the writing process.

If I could have, I wouldn't have given it even one star. Worse book I have ever read by David Baldacci. Unbelievable plots and unbelievable characters. Hated it!

No. Who really wrote this trash? I love Baldacci's books, but this is a childish, unbelievable mash of nonsense. Either Baldacci simply lost it, or some junior D quality writer put this together and anyone who spends money on this is being robbed.

This was the worst Baldacci novel published so far. The plot was slow-moving and boring. The end was unbelievable. There were portions of the book that were just too exaggerated. Reel and Robie are Special Agents with awesome abilities, but this was over the top.

These characters are relentlessly interesting, and they become involved with strange settings—in this case, the middle of nowhere in the US west. And you have to think that the skinheads and neo-Nazis and the survivalists are not far-fetched, thought not as immune to the law as this depicts. My reservations about these books is that there are two chronic problems: First, the situations the main characters get into are simply implausible in terms of escapability (in one case the woman takes out an armored vehicle with a rifle, in another she and the man overcome people heavily armed with night vision equipment while they have only blank bullets). Second, when they are captured by the bad guys (here twice) they are somehow kept alive while others die and they are told the intricate details of the bad guys' plans! This is a transparent device to inform the reader of the plot advances. And it's simply weak. Baldacci's a better writer than having to turn to these weak devices.

Baldacci was one of my favorite authors. Of late, his tales are pedestrian struggles in search of an interesting plot with a reasonably entaintaining ending. This one didn't work out, either. Mr. Balducci may want to take the road now traveled by really rich writers whose skills have declined. Get a lame tale from a neophyte author, put your name on the cover, and get as rich as James Patterson. K.L. Dowe.