Long Road to Mercy: 1 (Atlee Pine Thriller)

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She had sat in a group counseling session and had listened as the attendees went around the room discussing their most personal issues. She’s a tad extraordinary, almost an Olympic level athlete and well versed in a number of fighting methods but I like that she’s also a big solid girl and not too cliched / extreme in either her prickliness or her good-naturedness. Pine grew up in Georgia, but moved out West to enjoy the open spaces, as well as some distance from others. The depth of the Grand Canyon’s geography: While it was meant as an immersive narrative, it got a bit too mundane and made me zone out a bit when there was little but details of the Canyon for pages on end.

What a blast-off for Baldacci's most memorable protagonist yet--Atlee Pine is a heroine for our times, a fighter for justice we'd all be glad to have on our side. There is something to be said for an author who can juggle writing multiple book series at the same time, and even more for those who are able to see these collections continually hit the top of the charts.His books are published in over forty-five languages and in more than eighty countries, with 150 million copies sold worldwide. sets off some alarm bells however and she notes that everyone from the national security agency to her boss’s boss’s boss are suddenly interested in the death of Sallie Belle (the aforementioned mule).

You may have to suspend disbelief at times but overall the plot was compelling and the characters well fleshed out and believable. Atlee is a top profiler with the agency, and she keeps to herself working on lone missions in her vast assigned territory. This is where the forward motion of the story slows, almost stops and churns in place for no other reason than to up the page count.Will Atlee win the fight for the democracy of the country she swore to protect, or will her battle end with her life? Much later, when David thanked her for being the spark that ignited his writing career, she revealed that she’d given him the notebook to keep him quiet, "because every mom needs a break now and then. 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.