To my amazement, every plot thread (even an incident or two I didn’t expect to be important to the overall plot) comes together in the final chapters. I wouldn’t call the plot byzantine, but it is deliciously complex. That’s what held my attention to the end of this fast-moving novel. Who was the target: Robie or Julie? What, if any, is the connection between the woman Robie was sent to kill and Julie’s parents? Many gun battles and explosions later, the answer to those questions remains unclear. They barely survive the explosion of a bus on which they had been riding. The dilemma is resolved when Robie’s handler shoots mother and child from a distance and attempts to take out Robie in the process.Īfter this dramatic opening, the story takes a strange twist when Robie, who is now the target of the government he once served, hooks up with a fourteen-year-old girl named Julie whose parents have been murdered.
Robie doesn’t let himself be bothered by his assignments, but he finds himself with a dilemma when he’s ordered to kill a nearly middle-aged woman in D.C., particularly when he discovers (after breaking into her apartment) that she’s the mother of two, including the infant sleeping next to her, and a U.S. This is followed by the rather improbable assassination of a Saudi prince. He assassinates a man (and his four ultra-evil bodyguards) who is planning a military coup in Mexico that will create a government hostile to American interests. Published by Grand Central on April 17, 2012Īs The Innocent opens, Will Robie is carrying out a mission for his Agency masters.
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