

"Another action tale of espionage and betrayal from a master storyteller. Baldacci catches you from the very first page and grabs your attention until the last word. "This is another great novel by a brilliant writer. Baldacci at his best, which is as good as it gets."- Providence Sunday Journal " spectacular entry into the hardcore action-adventure world.a tour de force of storytelling power and grace.

Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life.and perhaps his own. Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. But she isn't an ordinary runaway-her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and is on the run.įleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. America's best hitman was hired to kill-but when a D.C.
