Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the U.S. government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up in this new thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of One Summer. (suspense). Simultaneous. Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up. America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military cant stop. Thats 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 . . . THE INNOCENTIt 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 doesnt 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 isnt 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 cant walk away. He needs to help her.Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more hes 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 girls life . . . and perhaps his own.
