Any time a new Robert Dugoni book comes out, it goes to the top of my reading list! I really enjoyed The Eighth Sister, so was intrigued by a sequel highlighting former CIA operative Charles Jenkins. Adding to the attraction was the fact that Jenkins is based on Camano Island, WA, where I live (though he doesn't spend much time there in this book).
This was definitely a page-turner. The characters are so realistic, the spy drama so engrossing that I couldn't put it down! Dugoni has a talent for describing settings so that you really feel like you are there. And, the chase scenes read just like you're watching them on TV or a movie. In fact, I kept thinking that these 2 books would be a great "James-Bond-type" movie series. Lo and behold, I read in the acknowledgements that there's a deal in the works for a TV series! Yes!
Loved this book! Highly recommended!

Charles once again got a visit from his former agency. But this time it was totally different and the reason he did it was to save the woman that saved him. Getting back in was perfect and getting back out was very entertaining where you dont want to put the book down.

A great espionage story often pits spy 🕵️‍♀️ versus spy 🕵️‍♂️, marching wit for wit, often like a chess game. Each move, no matter how brilliantly conceived, is countered with yet another brilliant move. Modern surveillance equipment, traffic cameras, financial transaction monitoring, and game theory programs change the way its played, have the players up their game, but the rules remain the same. It’s a match of wits. Whoever is quickest to the solution survived to fight another day.

“The Last Agent” is book two in the series and does not require the first book as a prerequisite. Nevertheless, it continues where the first book (the Eighth Sister) left off. Jenkins is back at home outside Seattle with his family, bitter at how the Agency disposed of him when it was convenient. But word is that Paulina, who saved his life and after whom his daughter was named, survived the car crash and is entombed deep in an interrogation chamber in the basement of a Russian prison. Jenkins is called out if retirement to effect the impossible: a rescue deep in the heart of Moscow.

There is a slow build up as Jenkins sneaks his way into Russia and alerts the one Russian agent who might be convinced to help him. From there, it’s making the impossible happen, getting Paulina out if Russian prison and to safety without maybe causing World War 3.

The slow methodical buildup pays off big time with the hold-your-breath and pray cat and mouse game as Jenkins and his allies ferret a way out against all odds. Once you get to this part, you are not going to want to put it down.

In The Last Agent, Robert Dugoni takes us on a wild ride through spies, double agents, counterintelligence, villainous villains and heroic heroes. Through it all, the characters are subject to human frailties, hopes, and desires. It is reminiscent of John Le Carré at his best, complex with a constant awareness of danger. The result is in question until the last page.
In addition to the main characters, the supporting actors, “Hot” Rod Studebaker, the 72-year-old Air America pilot and his much-younger Finnish wife, Federov, the disgraced KGB agent, and Alekseyov, the Russian security apparatchik, are well developed and engaging. I read the novel in big gulps.

This was another hit by the author. Another fun read filled with mystery and suspense. Although I have given the book a five-star rating, there were a few things I did not enjoy. Scattering in the Russian and then translating it took away from the flow of the book. Additionally, this book does not do well as a stand alone. Reading the previous book in this series is a must in order to fully understand this book.

This is a spy novel involving Russian spies and a bitter American agent. The book is very well written and readers who like spy novels will enjoying reading this one. I usually do not read spy novels but I like this authors writing style. I will say I love his other series and would recommend it to any reader