Guest Review: The Innocent – David Baldacci

The Innocent by David Baldacci
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Release Date:  April 17, 2011
Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing
Source:  NetGalley
Buy the book at: Amazon

America has enemies–ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can’t stop. That’s when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first–and last–mistake of his career . . . THE INNOCENTIt 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.

I really enjoyed this book.  In the back of my mind, I always wondered if the government has secret hitman they used to take out certain “problems” and Will Robie is exactly who I would picture as such a person (if they were real, of course).  


If you enjoy fast-paced thrillers where the possibility that certain members of our government are up to no good and employee any method possible to keep it secret, even murder, than this is a book for you.  David Baldacci knows how to write a book the keeps your attention and makes you wonder, what if.

I give this four cocktails.  Cheers!

Guest reviewed by:
Ash