![]() ![]() ![]() Wracked by survivor’s guilt, Atlee joined the FBI to hunt down killers like Tor. ![]() The prime suspect, notorious serial killer Daniel James Tor, is in a high-security prison, but with no confession, Atlee continues to search for her sister, even as Tor taunts her from jail. The third Atlee thriller is due out later in 2020 and I look forward to reading it and following Atlee into her next adventure.Number one bestseller Long Road to Mercy is the heart-pounding first novel in the FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine series by bestselling author David Baldacci.įBI Special Agent Atlee Pine has learnt three lessons in life:Ītlee’s twin sister, Mercy, was abducted from their bedroom over thirty years ago, and Atlee has spent every day since wondering what happened to her. Her mother was a mole into the New York mob, and when she finds out who her father really is it comes a shock to both her and to the reader. The answers lead her deeper into the people who knew her parents, and what she finds is disturbing. The question is why is somebody fulfilling a family fantasy. The third victim is a young boy dressed and posed as a Confederate drummer boy. The second is a man dressed as an antique groom. The first victim is a woman who is wearing a wedding veil. While she's pursuing the whole story of her family she becomes a part of the investigation into a serial killer and why the victims are posed the way they are. It becomes obvious that she's not being told the whole truth, the truth which has formed her life and who Atlee is inside her deepest soul. ![]() While in the small town she walks into the result of a serial killer's attack on a woman laying in the street.Īs Atlee asks around people who still live there and knew her parents and the circumstances surrounding Mercy's abduction, she finds her answers which lead to more questions as to who her parents really were. In the second Atlee Pine book, “A Minute to Midnight” (Hachette Book Group, IBSN 9781538761601), she and the capable Carol Blum vacation to Athlee's childhood home in Andersonville, Georgia, to seek answers to the questions around her sister Mercy's disappearances. She is as most formidable as a protagonist can be. All this comes to a head when a Soviet nuclear bomb is discovered in the Grand Canyon in a secret governmental effort to start a war with North Korea.Ītlee must discover how to find the bomb and the one man who can disarm it, and take the information to her agency's chief in an effort to right the wrongs within the American government who confronts her.Ītlee is a power iron lifter, missing the Olympics by being only a kilogram overweight, and as such can carry the action along no matter how heavy it becomes. The story includes a Korean mercenary assassin named Sung Nam Chung who tries to stop their investigation, along with members of our own country's secret agencies. Blum plays her Thelma to Atlee's Louise on the cross country trip in Atlee's 1967 Mustang convertible. The plot develops into a conspiracy that takes her from the Canyon to Washington, D.C., and back again, along with her unflappable secretary and assistant Carol Blum. But she finds no answers there.Ītlee is the lone FBI agent in Shattered Rock, Arizona, next to the Grand Canyon, and it is into the Grand Canyon the opening of the story takes us when a mule is found butchered at the bottom of the Canyon and a tourist is missing. She has spent her adult life looking for the truth about who took her sister, visiting a Super-Max prison to interview the serial killer she suspects did it. Hence the title of the book- “Long Road to Mercy” (Hachette Book Group, ISBN9781538761571). These books fearlessly feature a new protagonist in Atlee Pine, FBI agent.īaldacci is a grandmaster of character building, and getting to know FBI agent Pine is a delight, leaving you turning pages to discover how she is built into a full-fledged character her strengths and weaknesses, her motivations and methods.Ītlee's life is shaped by a childhood tragedy, when her identical twin Mercy is abducted one night from their shared bedroom, and Atlee's skull is bashed in by an unknown assailant. Which brings me to the point of these reviews on two books that I really enjoyed.ĭavid Baldacci has published over 38 novels, most becoming New York Times bestsellers, and doesn't disappoint with his 39th and 40th published in 20. But with the current covid-19 restrictions on all of us I have to depend on curbside service from my local library, and recommendations from my favorite librarians. I find it better to immerse myself in a good story, like my toes being buried in warm beach sand. Who says that summer reading has to be as bubbly and frothy as the foam on top of your iced latte? The Icon introduces our newest column of book reviews. ![]()
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