Long Road to Mercy is David Baldacci at his best, introducing an engrossing new heroine, FBI Agent Atlee Pine. Atlee has no intention of leaving the Deep South without answers, but the one who is most forthcoming might be locked away on the other side of the country.

FBI Agent Atlee Pine's life was never the same after her twin sister Mercy was kidnapped--and likely killed--thirty years ago. Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum head back to Atlee’s rural hometown in Georgia to see what they can uncover about the traumatic night Mercy was taken and Pine was almost killed.As they try to overcome their history and work together on the murder cases, Atlee continues to collect information on what happened to her family (with a little help from the very sympathetic FBI guys).

Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum head back to Atlee's rural hometown in Georgia to see what they can uncover about the traumatic night Mercy was taken and Pine was almost killed. and Atlee has gone back to her home town to seek the truth and also gets roped in to help with another string of murders.In the first novel we learn that FBI agent Atlee Pine's twin sister, Mercy, was kidnapped, and likely killed, thirty years ago.

Atlee is asked to help, and as she delves into learning who her parents were and why they left town in a hurry, a man is found dead, shot to death in a tux. by a yet-to-be-determined person/serial killer; an experience that has impacted on most of her life; after a troublesome adolescence, confirmed loner Atlee, went on to be a hard-working super focused weightlifting champion and MMA black-belt holder; and today she's a highly efficient FBI agent whose patch includes the Grand Canyon. If you’d like to share your thoughts on David Baldacci or any of his books and characters (or any books in general), drop us a line in the comments below. He and Atlee have some history but they will put their feelings aside to help with the task at hand. She is still visiting convicted serial killer Daniel Tor in prison, in the hope of finding out if he might be the person responsible.But in a small town full of secrets -- some of which could answer the questions that have plagued Atlee her entire life -- and digging deeper into the past could be more dangerous than she realizes .