![]() Even, as it turns out, genealogy.Ĭharles Finch is author of the Charles Lenox mystery series. Baldacci’s best is good, but I would read Child on anything. They used to say that Bear Bryant could beat you with his players, then turn around and beat you with yours. Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci - 9781509874330 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. What does it have that Baldacci’s book doesn’t? The answer is boring: Child’s just better. Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci, 9781509874330, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. There’s often a distracting sameness to the logic-driven interior lives of his characters, and Reacher’s incursion into that odd Laconia hotel directly recycles much of the dark web material of Child’s superb “Make Me” from 2015, a series highlight.īut the concision, procedural chops and terse, surprising action of “Past Tense” make it a fantastic read. What ensues is a pair of entwined stories, handled with adroit calm by Child, each of which lets Reacher use his unique skills as a brilliant former military cop to investigate them: Sherlock Holmes set to ultraviolent mode.Ĭhild has his own flaws. He immediately senses something off in Laconia, first in a strange hotel he passes, then in the lack of records about his family. He hesitates – he was looking forward to warm weather – before deciding to stop for a day and poke around. It’s for Laconia, New Hampshire, the town his father came from. In “Past Tense,” Reacher is in Maine, planning his long trek south for the winter, fueled as usual by superhuman amounts of coffee. It’s hard not to laugh near the end of the book when a character asks Pine: “So, how did thing turns out with the nukes and stuff?” It’s about the level of interest the author shows in his own improbable plotline.Ĭompare that to the sleek minimalism of Child’s tale. ![]() “Long Road to Mercy” is all over the place, overstuffed, brief when it needs more explanation and expansive when it doesn’t. Soon Pine is running rogue, plucky secretary in tow, unsure whether they can trust even the FBI itself, with Russia and North Korea (both!) on their tails. Almost immediately, Pine returns to a less personal case deep in the canyon, a stolen mule has been found dead, and its rider wasn’t just another tourist. FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s harrowing search for her lo. ![]() Unfortunately, that’s only a tease from Baldacci, to be pursued in other books. 4.35 36,523 Ratings 2,054 Reviews published 2021 7 editions. As the book begins, Pine has found sanctuary in the FBI – she’s a tough agent, preferring to work as far from others as possible, her current beat a remote office close to the Grand Canyon – and is taking to the road to visit the death-row prisoner she suspects of having kidnapped her sister. ![]() When she was 6, Atlee Pine watched as a man came into her bedroom and took her sister, Mercy. ![]()
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