The Hit
Will Robie • Book 2
Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Two elite assassins hunting each other — and McLarty and Cassidy split the tension between them like a wire pulled tight.
- Great if you want: cat-and-mouse spy thriller with moral ambiguity
- Listening experience: propulsive and tense — barely any downtime between set pieces
- Narration: dual narrators mirror the two-protagonist structure effectively
- Skip if: you want complex characters over plot-driven action
About This Audiobook
Government assassin Will Robie is sent to track down and eliminate Jessica Reel, a colleague who has gone rogue and begun killing members of their own agency. What appears to be a straightforward elimination order becomes more complicated as Robie investigates what turned Reel against the organization they both served, and discovers that her motives and her targets may not be what his handlers have told him. David Baldacci builds the thriller around the question of what constitutes a legitimate target.
Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy split the dual perspective with the professional assurance the Baldacci thriller format requires. McLarty gives Robie his characteristic combination of lethal competence and moral uncertainty, while Cassidy's Reel carries the specific quality of a person who has crossed a line and knows exactly why. The audiobook won the Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense, and the narrators' contrasting approaches to their characters demonstrate why dual narration at this level is qualitatively different from single-voice performance.
