Daylight: 3 (Atlee Pine Thriller)

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A huge back story obviously, it took me a while to get up to speed but this is very readable as a stand alone.

David is also the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across the US.If you've never met Atlee Pine before, she has a black belt in multiple martial arts and she is a former weightlifter and MMA fighter. As there seems to be some overlap with their cases, and they know each other from previous investigations, they agree to work together.

While I am no author, I think Pine deserved her limelight and that John Puller could have been introduced later in the piece, thereby providing him a cameo/crossover spot and not taking things over.

The lead investigator, John Puller, is a little less than happy, but once he sees that it’s Atlee Pine, he softens a little. It is the kind of book which holds the reader's interest from the first page to the last, and now I am ready for book 4. Atlee receives a promising breakthrough with the identity of her sister's kidnapper and following this lead she stumbles into a military installation investigation along with John Puller (who also has a series of books about him by the author) and finds herself working with him on the case which involves corruption to the highest level and which leads them to a global conspiracy. Working together, Pine and Puller must pull back the layers of deceit, lies and cover-ups that strike at the very heart of global democracy.

A great book for Baldacci fans, even if patience and a John Puller storyline hijacking are two aspects for which the title does not prepare the reader. Unfortunately she inadvertently walks into a take down in progress by Army Criminal Investigation Command and the man she seeks escapes. For many long years, Atlee Pine was tormented by uncertainty after her twin sister, Mercy, was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Working the Vincenzo angle, much is discovered and Atlee inadvertently makes a discovery about where Mercy may have gone the night she was kidnapped. This is the third of David Baldacci's FBI agent Atlee Pine series, a woman traumatised from childhood when her twin sister, Mercy, was abducted in Andersonville, Georgia.People will stop at nothing to hide their dark deeds and Pine and Puller find themselves in the crosshairs of a dangerous killer more than once. Clues now lead her and her assistant Carol Blum to Trenton, New Jersey, to talk to the grandson of the man Atlee believes took her sister. I always enjoy what David Baldacci brings to the table and marvel at how he can keep multiple series on the go by himself. David is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy programs across the United States. The story is fine as far as it goes pushing the hunt for Mercy along, and the slightly weaker subplot of Political blackmail could have been better used, my main complaint though is the ending!

In previous books Atlee has relentlessly dug into her past to reveal startling revelations about her parents. She is relentless in turning over every stone and rock as she finds much of the certainty she had about her father and mother begins to dissipate the more she discovers. They team up and find that they were only scratching the surface with their knowledge of their suspects.While the Mercy Pine mystery proves a thread throughout this piece, Pine seems to take second chair to John Puller and his needs, thereby relegating her to losing true character development in this novel, which is unfortunate.