The Innocent: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (834 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007UWOXKE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 249 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Who among us is innocent?" according to Susan Tunis. While I'll admit that I haven't read everything that the prolific Mr. Baldacci has published in recent years, I'm pleased to say that The Innocent is the strongest novel I've seen from him in quite some time. It was a book that I didn't want to put down until I'd read it all.The novel opens wit. "Tough assassin meets tough 1Tough assassin meets tough 14-year-old girl TChris As The Innocent opens, Will Robie is carrying out a mission for his Agency masters. He assassinates a man (and his four ultra-evil bodyguards) who is planning a military coup in Mexico that will create a government hostile to American interests. This is followed by the rather improbable assassi. -year-old girl" according to TChris. As The Innocent opens, Will Robie is carrying out a mission for his Agency masters. He assassinates a man (and his four ultra-evil bodyguards) who is planning a military coup in Mexico that will create a government hostile to American interests. This is followed by the rather improbable assassi. Big holes in the plot and mistakes everywhere Warning: Spoilers belowI've liked most of Baldacci's other works, but this one was quite bad. Where to start-- Robie supposedly assassinates an Arab terrorist in the beginning and we find out later that Robie's agency has an "inside man" planted in the terrorist's inner circle.-- For nearly the
Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. America has enemies - ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people. But Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career. It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life and perhaps his own.. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a 14-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway - her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. He needs to help her. government calls on Will Robie, a stone-cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. That's when the U.S. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable: He refuses to kill