by David Baldacci
Mr. Baldacci is an author on my auto-buy list so it could be I’m a bit biased and may have expected too much.
The primary thread was a bit difficult to follow and it was way too long to devour in a single evening. Some I found to be a bit too far-fetched to be believable.
In True Blue we meet sisters Beth and Mace Perry and attorney Roy Kingman. Beth Perry is the DC Chief of Police and Mace's older sister who's father was a Defense attorney who got shot in the face when the girls were teens. Mace Perry, the younger sister, is a disgraced police officer looking to clear her name. Roy Kingman is an attorney in a high profile law firm who was going about his Monday morning business until he finds a murdered coworker and gets caught up in Mace’s plan to get reinstated to the DC police force. Of course nothing is what it appears on the surface in a Baldacci thriller and pretty soon it begins to be a wild ride through government corruption. A seemingly simple murder turns into a government money laundering scheme dealing with some big, bad overseas players and sanctioned by those in some of the highest offices in our nation.
While it’s a highly captivating read, I will admit that it requires some suspension of belief (an ex-cop on parole and a lawyer who is a suspect in the murder break the law repeatedly in order to help solve the case). Baldacci helps us believe the yarn through his realistic and compelling depiction of a DC not thought about by most—a tough and gritty neighborhood where even cops tread carefully and crimes are committed out in the open streets. It’s DC like you’ve never thought of it before
In the end, this novel is an interesting read that may appeal to anyone who enjoys government conspiracies, mind-bending twists, and a somewhat sociopathic, rough-and-tumble heroine with a basketball-playing easily manipulated attorney (WHAT?!) counterpart.
As a note, this text does contain a lot of PG-13 language, enough so that I stopped counting. The usage fits the characters, but readers that are sensitive to this will not want to pick up this novel. Also, the murder in the book also involves evidence of rape, which is spoken about in a graphic medical fashion which may be offensive to some readers.
Reviewed by Nan Sevic
The primary thread was a bit difficult to follow and it was way too long to devour in a single evening. Some I found to be a bit too far-fetched to be believable.
In True Blue we meet sisters Beth and Mace Perry and attorney Roy Kingman. Beth Perry is the DC Chief of Police and Mace's older sister who's father was a Defense attorney who got shot in the face when the girls were teens. Mace Perry, the younger sister, is a disgraced police officer looking to clear her name. Roy Kingman is an attorney in a high profile law firm who was going about his Monday morning business until he finds a murdered coworker and gets caught up in Mace’s plan to get reinstated to the DC police force. Of course nothing is what it appears on the surface in a Baldacci thriller and pretty soon it begins to be a wild ride through government corruption. A seemingly simple murder turns into a government money laundering scheme dealing with some big, bad overseas players and sanctioned by those in some of the highest offices in our nation.
While it’s a highly captivating read, I will admit that it requires some suspension of belief (an ex-cop on parole and a lawyer who is a suspect in the murder break the law repeatedly in order to help solve the case). Baldacci helps us believe the yarn through his realistic and compelling depiction of a DC not thought about by most—a tough and gritty neighborhood where even cops tread carefully and crimes are committed out in the open streets. It’s DC like you’ve never thought of it before
In the end, this novel is an interesting read that may appeal to anyone who enjoys government conspiracies, mind-bending twists, and a somewhat sociopathic, rough-and-tumble heroine with a basketball-playing easily manipulated attorney (WHAT?!) counterpart.
As a note, this text does contain a lot of PG-13 language, enough so that I stopped counting. The usage fits the characters, but readers that are sensitive to this will not want to pick up this novel. Also, the murder in the book also involves evidence of rape, which is spoken about in a graphic medical fashion which may be offensive to some readers.
Reviewed by Nan Sevic
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