Mercy by David Baldacci is the long-awaited conclusion to the four-book search for FBI agent Atlee Pine’s twin sister who was kidnapped when the pair was six years old from their home in Andersonville, Georgia. Atlee does not know that her sister Mercy has survived kidnapping and torture, creating a new life for herself as Eloise Cain because she cannot recall anything but fragments of her life before the abduction 30 years ago.

On the bookshelves November 16, 2021, this thriller leads Atlee to Asheville, North Carolina, where she is on the trail of psychopath Desiree Atkins, who gave Mercy the name Rebecca and held her captive for 10 years, making her a slave in the household and abusing her with cigarette burns, knife carvings, and pin stabs before Rebecca escaped the shack in which she was imprisoned.

Atlee caught a break in her search for Mercy in Book 3 when she learned the identity of Mercy’s kidnapper, and she is on leave from her job and following that lead with her assistant Carol Blum. Meanwhile, Eloise has been surviving by her wits and brawn as she has been moving around the country taking any job she can get from truck-lift operator to security guard to a mixed martial arts challenger.

When Mercy-turned-Rebecca-turned Eloise hears on the radio that Rebecca Atkins is an FBI person of interest, Eloise begins to double down on her efforts to disappear because she fears that she will be arrested for the murder of Atkins’ husband who she knocked out while escaping her chamber of horrors. Little does Eloise know that along the way she has made another enemy who puts a plan into action to take her out because she killed his brother while defending a woman during a domestic dispute.

Those who have followed this long road to Mercy with Atlee through the three previous novels will not be able to put this volume down until they learn the outcome of Atlee’s quest to find out what happened to her sister.

David Baldacci’s debut novel, Absolute Power in 1996, became a popular movie starring Clint Eastwood. A former lawyer, Baldacci has published more than 40 novels for grownups over the last 25 years.

My review will be posted on Goodreads starting November 4, 2021.

I would like to thank Hatchette Book Group, Grand Central Publishing. and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in return for an objective review.

Wow! This book picks up with Atlee's search for her missing twin sister. The trail is obscured and filled with twists and turns that had me flipping pages just as quickly as possible. I was totally engrossed in the story and stayed up way too late reading.

This is a satisfying conclusion to the series and fully resolves the mysteries. I really liked the characters and hope the author finds a way to include them in future novels.

Fans of the genre will love this one! While this is part of a series, this is a stand alone novel, however, it's so good that you really owe it to yourself to read them all. The author is on my must read authors' list.

This book does not disappoint in page turning anticipation. Attlee Pine is everything you want in a main character and more- grit, morals, persistence and sheer talent. When I finished the book I just wanted more of her story.

The series seemed to end too soon. In my imagination, Attlee and Mercy have more adventures and crimes to solve, interesting characters and criminals to pursue. Baldacci has done it again!

I don't know what to say about this book, but I'll give it a whirl! However, DO NOT start this series with this book. Although it provides a lot of backstories, you will have lost something precious.

Astounding, riveting, violent, vicious, emotional, gratifying...I can come up with more, but why bore you?

This was one of the best books I have read in quite a while. I assume (yes, I know what they say about assuming things!). However, I do hope that there may be at least one more book.

All of the other books in this series have been written using just Atlee's point of view; this book is written a bit differently by using Atlee's and Mercy's voice as well as another secondary/main character. It was a bit spooky, but I was quickly able to get into it. It was almost like getting three stories in one.

As I said, I don't know what I can say to get you to read this, but if you like Baldalcci's works and have stuck with this series, then you HAVE to read this book to see how it all ends.

I liked this series so much that I have gone out to buy the two books I received as ARC.

*ARC provided by the publisher Grand Central Publishing, the author David Baldacci, and NetGalley. Thank-you.

An Atlee Pine story where we finally learn what has happened to her twin sister, Mercy. It seems like the end of the saga, so I’m interested to see what comes next for Atlee, and if Mercy will be with her.