But ultimately the trope of someone trained to be killing machine slowly learning to become more human wore a little thin. This started out as a pretty thrilling and fun ride and promising for my first experience with a Baldacci tale. ‘The Innocent’ is a book that will keep your brain engaged all the time, so make sure you don’t have anything else worth doing when you’re reading it. I consider it a Visual Book instead of just a novel because you will actually see what you read. He even develops a semi-crush on a White House Staffer named Annie Lambert, which is really not his natural behavior.The language was simple yet very gripping throughout the book. Under Julie’s tutelage, Robie discovers a new side of himself. But she knows whom to trust and she trusts Robie. She saw her parents die right in front of her eyes and now she is beyond any emotion, suffering or pain.
Not only is she talented beyond her age, she is fearless and sensible as well. But whose side is he on?Now Julie is the real star of the story. This was the first of many Baldacci is good at that – flawlessly leading you to believe something without actually saying it, and then doing just the opposite.An assassin with a mission. The first one was: a common American who turns against some extremely powerful System to save his daughter. This is the first time that I have gotten my hands on something written by David Baldacci, and now I regret not having read anything by him before.As is often the case, I try to guess the plot by looking at the jacket. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl’s life… and perhaps his own. 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. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can’t walk away. But she isn’t an ordinary runaway her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen year old runaway from a foster home. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.
But something about this mission doesn’t seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But Will Robie may have just made the first and last mistake of his career… It begins with a hit gone wrong. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target.
America has enemies – ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can’t stop.
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