The Innocent

New York: Grand Central Publishing. Good+. 2012. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Some reading and cover corner creases, some shelf and edge wear with splits to base of spine and tiny closed tear to top of front cover and endpaper. ; First printing of Grand Central trade edition with full number line, October 2012. Good reading copy, no names inside. Cover design and photo uncredited. ; The Will Robie Series; Vol. 1; 448 pages; 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 the kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and is on the run 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 centre of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power... .