Eloise intervenes and in the subsequent fight, Ken is left heavily injured.
Then one day, she runs into a guy called Ken Buckley who was physically abusing his girlfriend Rosa. Both sisters are tall, athletic and very strong and that helps El in her chosen life. Leading a hard life, she is currently homeless, working as a security guard and part-time MMA fighter. After escaping from the Atkinses’, she shunned the name given to her by the couple – Rebecca Atkins and became Eloise Cain(or El). But Atlee Pine hadn’t given up and having taken leave from FBI, she and Carol Blum began their own investigation to locate Mercy and have now found good leads that might lead to more information about her.ĭavid Baldacci introduces his latest novel, MercyĮarly on in Mercy, we are told that she is alive but under a different name, Eloise Cain. There were no sightings or information on Mercy – not even if she was alive or dead. Joe was found stabbed to death and Desiree missing. Pine (Lee) has been on leave from FBI to find her sister after all these years, and during a difficult and troubled investigation, Pine finds that Mercy was abducted and kept as prisoner by Joe and Desiree Atkins, for over ten years and then one night, due to a lapse on Joe’s part, Mercy escapes. Thirty years ago, Mercy was kidnapped from their family home and never found again. Lee is the solo agent there, and though the first novel focused on her adventures there, subsequent ones have been on finding her twin sister, Mercy. Atlee or Lee as she is better known, is an FBI resident agent is Shattered Rock Arizona field office, along with her assistant, Carol Blum. For those not in the know, this being their first Atlee Pine, here’s a little background. The fourth book of the Atlee Pine series, after A Long Road to Mercy, A Minute to Midnight and Daylight (read the review here) is another fast paced blockbuster. My Rating – 4 out of 5 Plot Summary (Storyline) – Mercy Read the Goodreads Review of Mercy here.Book Review – Mercy by David Baldacci – The Legacy of Atlee Pine Continues.
0 kommentar(er)
