A review by kimball_hansen
The Innocent by David Baldacci

4.0

4.5 stars. I'm glad this is a series because I can't wait for the next ones. I don't know how I found out about this book but I'm sure glad I did. It reminded me a lot of the movie my British B word coworker had me watch, called Leon. Not sure if one was based off the other, though. This book was also similar yet a tad milder than the extreme Mitch Rapp series of [b:American Assassin|7959473|American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)|Vince Flynn|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1510373140l/7959473._SY75_.jpg|11771611] that I love but still good nonetheless. The narrator sounded a lot like Robert Redford (and I had been watching a bit of The Old Man and the Gun the night before) so I kept picturing the main character, Will Robie, as him. Another neat thing about this book is that it had special effects and music mixed in certain parts, primarily gunshots and tension music. I liked it, wasn't too distracting either. Plus it had two narrators. You don't find that in audiobooks much these days.

The thing that got to me with this book is Julie. She's way too street savvy for her age. I don't like when young people are prodigies because it just simply never happens. I will admit that it would be great to find a woman who was like Anna

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as long as she wasn't a terrorist like we discover

.

And once again, this was another clean novel not filled with inappropriate actions nor filthy language. I like that there are people who don't see the need to add those to their stories.

But that ending though. Delivers one punch after the other until your up against the ropes and bleeding ready to take the final blow, right Jana? You described a book like that once. So many twists at the end. All because of

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dilated pupils

. I still don't know who this Abdullah guy is.