![]() Yes, there are women in the FBI, but it’s still predominantly male. There are some very clear differences between Atlee and Baldacci’s other female protagonists: government-sanctioned assassin Jessica Reel (Will Robie series) and ex-Secret Service agent Michelle Maxwell (King and Maxwell). When you go down the interstate, and you turn off an exit where my parents used to live, if you went to the right, you went to their house if you went to the left, you went to Atlee.”īaldacci engaging with a fan at a recent signing event Outside of the city is a place called Atlee, and there’s a high school-Atlee High School. “I had the name ‘Atlee Pine’ in my head pretty early on. For Baldacci, it holds historical significance. (Although should the character be optioned for either the big or small screen, she’d be the perfect role for the former model and Atomic Blonde Charlize Theron.)Īnd she’s certainly not the image of your typical heroine. In other words, she’s no willowy supermodel. It challenged me to pretend it was my first novel again.”Ītlee is a former Olympic-caliber bodybuilder. When it came to plotting and scheming LONG ROAD TO MERCY, Baldacci seems to have enjoyed every minute of it. ![]() Still, I’m hoping that one day, she’s going to realize those things for herself.”Ītlee’s grim backstory may be her cross to bear, but her uncanny ability to interpret a few sparse clues about a seemingly unimportant missing person and a gutted mule puts her in the middle of a geopolitical chess game. That’s really the only way she can keep going. By joining the FBI, she can achieve all of those things for other victims. She never had justice, resolution, or closure. She had no idea what even happened to her. “She finds herself leading two lives: one for herself, and one for her sister, who never had the opportunity to realize her potential, her ambitions, her dreams,” Baldacci says. The fact that the killer, Daniel James Tor, played Eeny, Meeny, Miny Mo to decide which of the twins to take with him has always haunted Atlee. She sees it as a way to avenge the tragic death of her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted by a serial killer when the girls were only six years old. And although its size is intimidating-it includes Grand Canyon National Park-Atlee is strongly motivated to succeed. His new protagonist, female FBI agent Atlee Pine, must cover a desolate Far West outpost on her own. With his latest novel, LONG ROAD TO MERCY, Baldacci has done just that. According to bestselling author David Baldacci, when you’ve written as many books as he has-10 series, or a total of 30 books and counting and another 12 stand-alone novels-there’s one way to keep his writing razor sharp: “Start from Square One: create a new character, a new series-a new world.”
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