More personally for Pine, he is the monster who beat her skull when she was just six years old and kidnapped her twin sister, Mercy, who hasn’t been seen since. She reflects that of all the lowlifes she has seen behind bars, none have come close to Daniel James Tor, perhaps the most sadistic serial killer of this or any generation. We begin with Pine still struggling with the tragedy that has shaped her life and probably formed the impetus for her career with the FBI. She is not completely broken per se, but is far from whole. Pine is an incredibly complex character, and her backstory is so powerful and engaging that you cannot help but refer back to it with every decision you see her making throughout the novel. Pine and Blum have managed to locate Wanda Atkins, who was aware of what had happened with Pine’s abducted sister and gives them the only lead that Pine’s had in all these years to locate her sister.FBI agent Atlee Pine is the most recent creation from David Baldacci’s fertile imagination, and LONG ROAD TO MERCY marks the debut of a new series. This is where it all heats up, the FBI is looking for Eloise/Rebecca, Pine and Blum are looking for her and now Britt Spector and Peter Buckley are also looking for her – only difference being is that they are the only ones with a lethal intent. He hires as assassin, Britt Spector, to find and kill Eloise as revenge. At this time, Ken Buckley (from the fight with Eloise) dies of his injuries, and his influential and moneyed brother, Peter Buckley, finds out that El is behind it. Meanwhile, Lee and Blum are closing in, locating one after the other people who had any links with Rebecca’s life with the Atkins’. She has no memories of her life before she became Rebecca, except some minute snatches of vision of a mother and some other person called Lee. El leaves him at that, taking Rosa with her.Įloise, by then, is on the run from the FBI – thinking that the picture that Atlee has put out on the media is to arrest her for Joe’s death. Eloise intervenes and in the subsequent fight, Ken is left heavily injured. Then one day, she runs into a guy called Ken Buckley who was physically abusing his girlfriend Rosa. Both sisters are tall, athletic and very strong and that helps El in her chosen life. Leading a hard life, she is currently homeless, working as a security guard and part-time MMA fighter. After escaping from the Atkinses’, she shunned the name given to her by the couple – Rebecca Atkins and became Eloise Cain(or El). But Atlee Pine hadn’t given up and having taken leave from FBI, she and Carol Blum began their own investigation to locate Mercy and have now found good leads that might lead to more information about her.ĭavid Baldacci introduces his latest novel, MercyĮarly on in Mercy, we are told that she is alive but under a different name, Eloise Cain. There were no sightings or information on Mercy – not even if she was alive or dead. Joe was found stabbed to death and Desiree missing. Pine (Lee) has been on leave from FBI to find her sister after all these years, and during a difficult and troubled investigation, Pine finds that Mercy was abducted and kept as prisoner by Joe and Desiree Atkins, for over ten years and then one night, due to a lapse on Joe’s part, Mercy escapes. Thirty years ago, Mercy was kidnapped from their family home and never found again. Lee is the solo agent there, and though the first novel focused on her adventures there, subsequent ones have been on finding her twin sister, Mercy. Atlee or Lee as she is better known, is an FBI resident agent is Shattered Rock Arizona field office, along with her assistant, Carol Blum. For those not in the know, this being their first Atlee Pine, here’s a little background. The fourth book of the Atlee Pine series, after A Long Road to Mercy, A Minute to Midnight and Daylight (read the review here) is another fast paced blockbuster. My Rating – 4 out of 5 Plot Summary (Storyline) – Mercy Read the Goodreads Review of Mercy here.Book Review – Mercy by David Baldacci – The Legacy of Atlee Pine Continues.
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