The Innocent by David BaldacciMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Innocent, is the 1st book in David Baldacci latest Will Robbie Series featuring the new character Will Robbie.
Will Robie works for a secret clandestine US agency and is one of their top operatives. His life revolves around his job and missions and is portrayed as the perfect operative…..
His employer decided who among the living and breathing would qualify as a target. And then they turned to men like Robie to end the living and breathing part. It made the world better, was the justification.
The book starts off with some back-story of some of Robie’s previous missions which gives us a bit of an insight into his character and his life.
Robie is somewhat surprise about his latest assignment. The target is a Washington DC female government employee with a family. His instincts are telling him that something is not right and has he hesitates to carry out his orders, some other sniper finishes the mission instead. He realizes that you don’t play around with not completing a mission, so he leaves town under the radar and heads off to New York City until he finds out more about his failed mission and the possibility that he may be the next target.
Julie Getty, 14 years old, smart, touch and street-wise is on the run after witnessing the murder of her parents.
Robie and Julie’s paths cross when they both board the same bus. When he saves her from an assassin that he recognizes, they team up to solving the reason for both being targeted. Their meeting at first seems unrelated to each other’s dilemma but the events that follow show a connection between his mission and her family’s murder. Joining forces with a local FBI agent, who offers to help them. A race against time to find the people responsible for the crimes and not knowing who they can trust.
The plot reminded me a bit of the movie, Leon: The Professional, where Jean Reno, a hit man, saves and helps his next door neighbor, a young girl, Natalie Portman, after she witnesses her parent’s murder and how she makes him a more humane person.
Engrossing, good pacing, tense, believable characters, action packed twists and turns and humor…
“Any spies work there? Doubtful. While lucrative, corn subsidies don't really get bad guys all that excited.”A great introduction to a new series and a strong, intriguing and likeable hero.
“He has twenty-nine friends, which isn't a lot, but I don't know how long he's been on Facebook either. And he's a really old guy.” “he's only fifty,” Vance pointed out. Julie shrugged. “Like I said, he's a really old guy.”
I liked this quote:
“You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.”
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