He needs to help her.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 must escape from his own people.Fleeing 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. THE INNOCENTIt begins with a hit gone wrong. But Will Robie may have just made the first-and last-mistake of his career. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. Running for his life, but not before he picks up a bloodstained letter opener that puts the president at the scene of the crime, the burglar becomes the target of a clandestine manhunt orchestrated by leading members of the executive branch.Meanwhile, Jack Graham, once a public defender and now a high-powered corporate attorney, gets drawn into the case because the on-the-lam burglar just happens to be the father of his former financee, a crusading Virginia prosecutor. Embroidering the narrative through assorted plot whorls are the hero\'s broken romance his conflict over selling out for financial success the prosecutor\'s confused love-hate for her burglar father the relentless investigation by a northern Virginia career cop the dilemma of government agents trapped in a moral catch-22 the amoral ambitions of a sexy White House Chief of Staff and the old burglar\'s determination to bring down the ruthless president. Meanwhile, lurking at the novel\'s center like a venomous spider is the sociopathic president.Īmerica has enemies-ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop.
A grizzled professional cat burglar gets trapped inside the bedroom closet of one of the world\'s richest men, only to witness, through a one-way mirror, two Secret Service agents kill the billionaire\'s trampy young wife as she tries to fight off the drunken sexual advances of the nation\'s chief executive.
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