WILL ROBIE
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Full Name: |
Will Robie |
Nationality: |
American |
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CIA |
Occupation |
Agent |
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Creator: |
David Baldacci
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Time Span: |
2012 - 2015 |
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ABOUT THE SERIES
Will Robie is an agent with the CIA.
He is an assassin - one of their very best. According to the author's website, "America has enemies — ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can’t stop. To combat them, the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone-cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target."
This description is close but as the series opens and then progresses, a couple of items changes slightly. He stays largely stone-cold but the people he meets and the realization that his life is pretty empty outside his work has him warming up. He is by no means room temperature yet but there is thawing. The other point is the "never questions orders" as he learns the hard way that after years of doing what he does, there comes a time when he has to ask "why".
Robie is an extremely private person, revealing very little to anyone, including the readers. He is just reaching 40 and since he has been a government assassin for over a decade, he obviously started in his late 20's. Military service before that is a certainty with Special Forces a given. This would have put him in during the First Gulf War and his sniper skills would have come in handy and would have brought him to the attention of the talent scouts for the Agency.
He has never been married and until the events of first book he had never entertained the idea of a family and a homelife. Even when certain things did not work out as he had hoped in the first recorded adventure, the wall he had erected around himself was showing cracks and the second adventure just adds to the weakening.
But he remains a most dangerous killer. He is blessed with impressive powers of observation and a mind that can analyze rapidly and come up with alternatives, a gift that those in his line of work must have or they do not survive. And Robie is a survivor.
NOVELLAS AND SHORT STORIES
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Number of Stories: | 1 |
First Appearance: | 2014 |
Last Appearance: | 2014 |
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Bullseye
Written by David Baldacci
Copyright: 2014
Will Robie is on a mission when he steps into a bank and becomes a hostage in a bank heist. A fellow captive is Oliver Stone and the two begin to realize money is not the real target.
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GRADE
My Grade: A
Your Average Grade: A+
YOUR OPINIONS
simibond
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A+
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10/31/2014 9:25:48 AM
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it is a great start .. let's see how it will go! Will is very good .. in the Mitch Rapp and John Wells League!! less international intrigue but ruthless like all the govt assassins should be.
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Monsieur
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A+
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11/14/2015 1:43:54 PM
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Just before James Bond's SPECTRE film opened, I discovered the Will Robie series. I have finished the first novel and was immensely satisfied by the outcome of the major plot. I also discovered a parallel to a British assassin, James Bond. The same in career choices but that's where the parallel ends. Will doesn't roam the various corners of the world, rather he stays in the continental USA for the major plot. The author keeps the chapters short so that you can read a chapter a night and not lose track. Great conspiracies and action support a great story. Read this one!!
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