True Blue
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4.0 • 129 Ratings
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
True Blue is a gripping ride, full of pace, action and tension from David Baldacci, one of the world’s favourite storytellers.
Mace Perry was a maverick cop on the DC police force who lost everything when she was framed for a crime she didn’t commit. She spent two years in prison and now she’s trying to rebuild her life. But first she’s determined to hunt down the people who set her up. Even with her police chief sister by her side, she needs to work in the shadows. There are those with power out there just looking for a reason to put her back behind bars and she needs to find the reason why.
A female partner at a city law firm is found murdered and it seems her fate is entangled with Mace’s story. As the investigation deepens, Mace finds herself drawn into both the public and private world of the nation’s capital as dark secrets begin to emerge. If she’s to prove her innocence, she will need all her skills to reveal the truth, confront her enemies and regain her life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This promising first in a new series from bestseller Baldacci (First Family) introduces Beth Perry, chief of the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police, and Beth's younger sister, Mace Perry, a former police officer dubbed "the Patty Hearst of the twenty-first century" after she was seized by bandits, drugged and taken along on a series of armed robberies around Washington. Mace, who's just getting out of prison after serving a two-year sentence, is willing to risk everything to clear her name and reclaim her life as a cop by cracking a big case on her own. The rape-murder of a powerful lawyer as well as the killing of a prominent U.S. attorney provide Mace an opportunity to vindicate herself. While Baldacci draws his characters in bright primary colors, and some of the action reaches comic book proportions, he delivers his usual intricate plotting and sets the stage nicely for highly competent Beth and impulsive, streetwise Mace to take on more bad guys.
Customer Reviews
A good, but not great, read
Whilst giving this book 'only 3 stars' I should say that I did enjoy the road along which the main character Mace Perry and her fellow travellers wound their way, however, I am left with a feeling that something just wasn't right about the story. My lack of outright enthusiasm is probably due to the fact that after 100 or so chapters the story is hurriedly brought or a conclusion in the last 5 or 6 and the book feels rushed and a little unsatisfactory as a result.
In addition, various parts of the story didn't fit very well together i.e. whilst Mace Perry proves to be a resourceful ex-cop turned private eye, there was little to suggest that she would be able to take on a top Russian agent and several armed men, irrespective of the outcome! Furthermore, the reason for Mace loosing her job as a cop in the first place is given scant space in the story as if it were a minor incident rather than her main reason for pursuing her goal to be re-instated as a 'True Blue'.
Excellent Readind
Great book had to keep reading kept you in suspense till the end
Review of True Blue
David Baldacci has written another excellent book,I have enjoyed this book very much