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Long Road to Mercy: 1 (Atlee Pine Thriller)

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Those around Atlee Pine help support her and strengthen the story in their own way, as the reader pushes through this series debut. I’ve previously mentioned that I was once a fan of espionage type thrillers and an avid reader of Robert Ludlum, Len Deighton and David Morrell. Be it thrillers, holiday heartwarming stories, or something with political implications, Baldacci usually knows how to convey his point through well-developed novels.

The narrations by newcomer Brittany Pressley (female voices) and veteran Baldacci-reader Kyf Brewer (male voices) were both excellent.Along the way she will revisit painful memories of her own, come to grips with what she is and what she might one day aspire to be. Of course it’s the lack of motivation for its murder and disappearance of its rider – who seems to have a murky international relations job – that is really of interest and before Atlee knows it doors are being shut in her face and she’s being warned off. The plot: It was really well-woven, introducing the reader to unknown ideas that could very well be real (some aspects may or may not be based in reality, in fact – I didn’t check).

stars was the plot - hardly credible - and the storyline - which seemed to wander the entire USA and back again. I literally skipped two to three pages of description because I didn’t care and didn’t want to read it. Small towns, impossibly long distances in-between, isolation like most on the East Coast have never experienced, and an environment where anything can and does happen. I like this new character Atlee Pine so the part about her background and troubles in the first few chapters were really good. At the age of 5 years old, Atlee was left seriously assaulted after her twin sister, Mercy, was abducted from their bedroom.What she lacks in terms of social skills and ambition she makes up for by her don't-mess-with-me nature and her investigative skill.

Mind you, though, that the early chapters in which we learn much about our heroine did give me cause for concern. In this, the first Atlee Pine adventure a trekking mule is brutally slain and the tourist who was riding it has gone missing, feared dead. At the beginning, she remains fixated on finding out what happened to Mercy; believing that a prolific serial killer was involved, she visits him in the no-mercy federal prison in which he's expected to spend the rest of his life.There's enough in here to intrigue me and I do want to know more about the missing sister but I'm hoping for a better plot for book 2 than this one. Since the beginning of the story takes place in the Grand Canyon, there are descriptions of what it looks like. Almost making Olympic status in weight lifting her character comes across as real and believable when she has to kick major butt. Atlee’s character is well developed in this first instalment and we learn what makes her tick, her motivations and her past. stars, but in the end I decided that David Baldacci's creation of Atlee Pine is a good thing, particularly since I read that he has decided to develop this character as the long-term basis of a future series.

There was one scene that was also over the top and too predictable (the helicopter scene—why leave the café to go talk somewhere else? The book opens with Atlee visiting the man who she believes kidnapped and killed her twin sister 29 years earlier. She can have no idea as to how deeply this will blow her world apart as she is warned off looking further into the case by her superiors in the FBI or face suspension.Just as Pine locates the missing Priest, she is assaulted and both Priest brothers are abducted by someone on a military chopper. Atlee’s pretty sure she now remembers seeing him in their bedroom when she was just 6yrs old but worries a little that she might be wrong. There are two black characters, but one is just a guy we meet in the gym and who we don’t even know his name, and another guy who is only a taxi driver. I have often classified books as spectrum as either chocolate and popcorn for pure entertainment, and Savory, meat and potatoes for literary works with great depth.

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