{"id":2047,"date":"2013-07-27T14:15:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T14:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2015-03-31T00:20:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:20:26","slug":"the-hit-by-david-baldacci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2047","title":{"rendered":"The Hit by David Baldacci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2052 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/The-Hit.jpg\" alt=\"The Hit\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you like suspense, action and lots of twists, then you will like this book. It&#8217;s basically the story of\u00a0two master assassins that the government calls in to get their worst enemies. Will Robie and Jessica Reel are considered the best of the best. The story starts out with Reel turning on members in her own agency, which in turn forces the agency to send Robie out to kill her. There\u00a0are a lot of cat and mouse traps.\u00a0Questions\u00a0arise through the action\u00a0as to\u00a0who exactly the bad guys are, and\u00a0Robie starts to ask questions about Reel&#8217;s motives. The story also reflects on how these two assassins&#8217; backgrounds led them to become trained killers. The final answers are surprising. I would recommend this\u00a0book because it&#8217;s quick and full of suspense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like suspense, action and lots of twists, then you will like this book. It&#8217;s basically the story of\u00a0two master assassins that the government calls in to get their worst enemies. Will Robie and Jessica Reel are considered the best of the best. The story starts out with Reel turning on members in her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2047\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hit by David Baldacci<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-joann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}