Returning to her own house, she sees her parents being murdered by a lone killer. When she receives a note from her mother stating that they want to make a new start as a family, Julie runs away from her foster home. Putting his personal escape plan into action, he heads to the bus station to get on the next bus to New York with a ticket booked earlier under an alias.įourteen-year-old Julie Getty has been forced into the foster care system due to a recurring drug problem faced by parents who have made numerous attempts to turn clean. Robie manages to escape in spite of his handler leading him to the second shooter, and imminent death.
Before he realizes his mistake, a secondary shooter kills both mother and child. But on the day, faced by the young woman he’s meant to kill and the child that’s holding on to her, Robie, for the first time in his life, hesitates. Government assassin, Will Robie, returns from two successful assignments in Tangier and Edinburgh to find that his next target is right in his home city – a government employee who needs to be eliminated for an unknown reason. On the run from his own government and with everything on the line, does he need to change sides to save lives – including his own? The Innocent is the first novel in David Baldacci's blockbuster Will Robie series. In doing so, Robie finds himself becoming the target. Dispatched to kill a US government employee, he does the unthinkable when things don’t add up – he refuses to pull the trigger. But now he’s facing the most difficult operation of his career. The odds were stacked against him, but that’s never made a difference before. He’s just returned from a covert assignment in Edinburgh to neutralize a growing threat, having drawn upon all his expertise to complete his mission and disappear without a trace. He never questions his orders, and he never misses his mark. Master assassin Will Robie is the man the US government call to eliminate their most ruthless enemies at home or abroad. He could no longer remember the names of all the people whose lives he had ended. The Innocent is another action-packed thriller from David Baldacci, one of the world's most popular writers.
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