Last Man Standing Review
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.
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- ISBN13: 9780446696593
- Condition: New
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Last Man Standing Overview
It took ten seconds for Web London to lose everything: his friends, his team, his reputation. Point man of the FBIs super-elite Hostage Rescue Team, Web roared into a blind alley toward a drug dealers lair, only to meet a high-tech, custom-designed ambush that killed everyone around him. Now coping with the blame-filled words of anguished widows and the suspicions of colleagues, Web tries to put his life back together with the help of his psychiatrist, Dr. Claire Daniels. To do so, he must discover why he was the one man who lived through the ambushand find the only other person who came out of that alley alive...a ten-year-old boy who has since disappeared.
Last Man Standing Specifications
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
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Last Man Standing - 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. - 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.
Great quick read - H. Newman - Washington DC
It takes a while to get in to the plot, but once it does, don't plan anything.
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