Will and Jess are forced to work together to work out what’s happened to the man they both admire, though know little about. Reel is still a slow to emerge character for me, whose past is a jumble and present seems quite focused on the mission.

Even for commercial fiction and measuring it against the other instalments of the series, it is always incredible just how not well handled every aspect of this book is. As they delve deeper into the mystery behind Blue Man’s disappearance, they find themselves facing an adversary who has a home and firepower advantage.When Reel and Robie arrive, they find a town with a stagnant economy, an understaffed police force, and camps recruiting people with dangerous ideologies. In total, David has published 49 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers, and several have been adapted for film and television. Formulaic, but lacking adequate character development, especially disappointing with an earlier likable character Will Robie.

As Will and Jessica work the clues, suspects and background information is revealed piece by piece, and the two argue and bicker over Jessica being distant from Will without explanation. I plan to go back and read the third and fourth books in the series, The Target and The Guilty but am not necessarily in a hurry. That Will and Jessica possess near super-human capabilities both individually and as a team is de rigueur in this series, but what they accomplish here stretches imagination beyond the limit, at least for me. It's hard to believe that the same person who brilliantly wrote The Innocent actually wrote End Game.

Sent to investigate, Robie and Reel arrive in the small town of Grand to discover that it has its own share of problems. It rambled, went in too many different directions and was nothing like a true Will Robie book has been or should be. But then again, in the end all's right with the world - except for a few issues that no doubt will carry over to the next book.