and an old nightmare.Įeny, meeny, miny, moe. Worth a look.Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat. Baldacci skirts the political line of being anti big government by emphasising the role of overreach within government by individuals. The concept of David and Goliath is not a new one as the underdog successfully takes on government and all its resources. As she gets closer to the answers though she finds more and more government agencies will do all they can to stop her.īaldacci shows once again how good he is at crafting a tale that is extremely believable. However Pine’s interest is piqued and she goes undercover to follow the trail and soon finds that it goes to the highest echelons of government. In fact she is advised to let the matter drop and take some leave instead. Then a Korean hitman arrives on the scene and it appears that Pine is his main target.įeeling out of her depth Pine seeks support from her bosses and soon realises that this support is not forthcoming. Her interest is further piqued when she realises that the missing individual works for a company that does not exist. Pine sets up the initial investigation but soon discovers that some of the FBI’s top brass are watching events very closely. Experiences from her childhood have contributed to her being the person she is and in one particular instance she has carried that into adulthood.Ī mule has been found mutilated within the Grand Canyon and the person riding it has disappeared.
Pine is a loner happy to operate within the Bureau in a single agent office out near the Grand Canyon.
#LONG ROAD TO MERCY SERIES#
I think Baldacci has lost a reader with this one, maybe just for this series.but maybe I'll have to rethink reading any writer who thinks it's fine to use the killing of an animal as a plot device.ĭavid Baldacci introduces us to FBI Agent Ashley Pine in the first of what has been predicted as a new series of books featuring the character. Between the singularly unappealing main character and the vastly unappealing use of an innocent animal to drive the story.no, just no. I will likely not get deeper into it than I am now, with the discovery of the disemboweled donkey. Indeed, I think she is probably the least likeable and most flawed major character Baldacci has ever written. She just floats warily, but attentively, through things. She doesn't seem to think about conditions, like Decker or even John Puller. I cannot see Atlee Pine ever being an integrated personality.
Amos Decker is supersized, but he is an integrated personality, for all his quirks and differences. And no, it was not just the supersizing of this detective that put me off it was her entire demeanor. Other female sleuths, notably those by Agatha Christie (Tommy and Tuppence) and by James Patterson are drawn as women, but as women who also investigate and are very good at it. I am not much in favour of a female character drawn as if she were a man, to start with. With this one, though, I was a bit put off even before the donkey was used as a prop. I was waiting eagerly for a new series from Baldacci I like his other ones and his stand-alone novels. I got it automatically via Kindle a couple of days ago, having ordered it when it was first announced. She knows about killers and perhaps understands them better than any profiler in the FBI, but it soon becomes clear that she will need to put her skills to the ultimate test in this investigation.It seems that Atlee will now have to confront a new monster. Now, Atlee is called in to investigate a case in the Grand Canyon when a mule is found dead with strange carvings on its body, and its rider missing. She will always ask herself, ‘Why her, and not me?’ Tor still resides in a high-security prison in Colorado.Īssigned to the remote wilds of the western United States, Atlee has never stopped the search for her sister, and, wracked with survivor’s guilt, she has spent her life hunting down those who hurt others.
#LONG ROAD TO MERCY SERIAL#
Notorious serial killer Daniel James Tor, was caught and convicted of other murders, and while there’s no proof, Atlee believes he knows what happened to Mercy. It is 30 years since FBI special agent Atlee Pine’s twin sister, Mercy, was taken from the room they shared as young children. Long Road to Mercy is the heart-pounding first novel in the FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine series by bestselling author David Baldacci.
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