The Innocent (Baldacci novel)

The Innocent

Hardcover edition
Author David Baldacci
Country United States
Language English
Series Will Robie
Genre Thriller novel
Publisher Grand Central Publishing
Publication date
October 9, 2012
Media type Print, e-book, audiobook
Pages 448 pp.
ISBN 978-1455519002
Followed by The Hit

The Innocent is a thriller novel by American writer David Baldacci. This is the first book to feature Will Robie, a highly skilled U.S. Government assassin. The book was initially published on October 9, 2012 by Grand Central Publishing.[1][2]

Plot

It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.

Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-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. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her.

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 may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life . . . and perhaps his own.

—Review by Barnes & Noble[3]

Reception

This is a violent book, with lots of casualties. You don't see the blood and guts as in the movies, but the descriptions are graphic and mind-bending. There are a lot of ways to die.

Yes, this is another great novel by a brilliant writer. Baldacci catches you from the very first page and grabs your attention until the last word. Read it.

—Review by Lincoln Journal Star[4]

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