True Blue

Name: True Blue
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.11 (67 reviews)
Author: David Baldacci
ISBN: 9781600247705

Author: David Baldacci

Narrator: Ron McLarty

Abridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 10/27/2009

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective, International Crime & Mystery, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

As former D.C cop Mace Perry investigates a mysterious high-profile homicide in a last-ditch attempt to get her badge back, she finds herself on a collision course with the dark side of national security in this New York Times bestseller.

Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime -- and then spent two years in prison. Now she's back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more.
Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major case on her own. But even with her police chief sister on her side, she'll have to work in the shadows: A vindictive U.S. attorney will stop at nothing to send Mace back to jail. Enter Roy Kingman . . .

A young D.C. lawyer, Roy meets Mace after the murder of one of the firm's female partners. Soon Roy and Mace are investigating together -- and uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public sectors of the nation's capital.

Author Bio

Author, David Baldacci, was born in Richmond VA in 1960. He had had a different plan for his life than most authors. He received a law degree from the University of VA and practiced in law for many years in Washington, DC. He actively began writing stories as a child after his mother gave him a notebook. As he got older he wrote short stories and screenplays without reaching much success. He then turned to writing a novel where he spent three years writing Absolute Powers in 1996, which proved to be a bestseller. He has published 29 bestselling adult novels and 4 children's novels.

Baldacci and his wife live in Vienna, VA where they are the founders of "Wish You Well Foundation". (named after one of his novels, "Wish You Well" which was also a screenplay for the movie starring Ellen Burstyn.) The Foundation works to combat illiteracy in the United States. Baldacci has over 110 million copies of his book in print.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Laurie on 2011-05-05 02:58:58

Baldacci should have done more research on strong women before he wrote this deeply shallow and patently unbelievable conspiracy-theory hoohah. None of the women in this book come across as females. Mace, the protagonist, seems more like a teenage boy than a 30-yr-old woman, and her sister, Chief of Police Beth Mason, is just a backdrop for Mace's silliness. Even antagonist Mona, the standard conniving *****, seems like more of a cardboard stand-in for a stereotype. But the guys aren't much better. There are your automaton Federales-gone-bad contract killers, your looney over-zealous patriots, your super-rich altruists, and your slightly dense pseudo-boyfriend although the only time he actually comes on to Mace, she responds like . . . like a 16-yr-old boy, of course. It makes me think that one morning Baldacci got up and thought, OK, how could I rework some unpublished material into a chick-lit genre, without putting out too much effort? Epic fail.