#73 in Thriller
The Innocent
- 494
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 9 weeks on the list, peaked at #4
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About the book
America has enemies - ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. 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 she isn't an ordinary runaway -- her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. 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. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life... and perhaps his own.
Reading order · Will Robie
Full order & progress →- The InnocentThis book
7.87.8 / 10 - The Hit
7.77.7 / 10 - The Target
7.77.7 / 10 - End GameEnd Game–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 152 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 50% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 6 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 146 | 96% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“Quickly became a great page-turner and I couldn't really put it down. A couple of great twists that had me wanting to carry on reading - even when I knew I shouldn't. Loved it”
“This is the 2nd Baldacci book that I read (the first one was the initial Camel Club book) and I enjoyed this one much more. Though there were a few places I figured out the plot ahead of time, it was a gripping story that…”
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How long is The Innocent?
It has 494 pages — longer than 73% of the ranked books in Thriller.
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