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Title details for The Innocent by Taylor Stevens - Available

The Innocent

#2 in series

by Taylor Stevens
Hillary Huber
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With The Innocent, Taylor Stevens, the bestselling author of The Informationist, returns with another blockbuster thriller featuring the fearless Vanessa Michael Munroe.
 
Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen. For eight years, followers of The Prophet have hidden the child, moving her from country to country, shielding the man who stole her. Now, those who’ve searched the longest know where to find her. They are childhood survivors of The Chosen, thirty-somethings born and raised inside the cult who’ve managed to make lives for themselves on the outside. They understand the mindset, the culture within that world, and turn to Vanessa Michael Munroe for help, knowing that the only possibility of stealing Hannah back and getting her safely out of Argentina is to trust someone who doesn’t trust them, and get Munroe on the inside.
 
Tautly written, brilliantly paced, and with the same evocation of the exotic combined with chilling violence that made The Informationist such a success, The Innocent confirms Taylor Stevens’ reputation as a thriller writer of the first rank.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Vanessa Michael Munroe

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    December 27, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307971425
      • File size: 358552 KB
      • Duration: 12:26:58

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Hillary Huber perfectly captures a fascinating force of nature, Vanessa Michael Munroe. Beautiful, calculating, androgynous, and deadly, Munroe is asked by a friend and a group of cult survivors to go undercover to South America to rescue a child who was kidnapped by their former cult, a group known as The Chosen. Offering a fascinating portrait of cult mentality, the author creates a tightly woven plot filled with tension, drama, and believable characters. In particular, Huber portrays Munroe as a strong, memorable woman--who is a bit like Lee Child's hero Jack Reacher. Listeners won't want to miss Stevens's first Munroe thriller, THE INFORMATIONIST, also recorded by Huber. That story includes the details of Munroe's violent history in Africa and how she became a cool, intelligent killer. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from October 24, 2011
      In Stevens’s impressive second Vanessa Michael Munroe novel (after 2010’s The Informationist), Vanessa travels to Buenos Aires in search of a 14-year-old girl, Hannah, who was kidnapped eight years earlier by her mother’s boyfriend and hidden among a religious cult known as the Chosen. Aided by security expert Miles Bradford, Vanessa frees Hannah after infiltrating the compound where the girl was being held, setting off a volatile chain of complications. The gripping plot runs on adrenaline as much as does Vanessa, who unleashes her violent tendencies when the powerless are threatened. The neglected daughter of American missionaries, Vanessa knows too well the mind control a closed society exerts over its members. Her career as “an informationist,” specializing in ferreting out top secrets for corporations and the über-wealthy, has evolved into her role as “accidental assassin.” Haunted by her “kills,” she can’t stop meting out her brand of justice. The complicated Vanessa makes for an intriguing heroine—at once tough, fearless, vulnerable, and compassionate.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Harlan Coben is a master at turning ordinary lives upside down. In THE INNOCENT, a man's life is coming apart---for the second time. Matt Hunter, an ex-con trying to live down his past, is jolted from his suburban life when he becomes the prime suspect in a murder. In the prologue, Scott Brick's narration introduces a guileless Matt, the innocent Maine college boy who tries to break up a fight and causes a death. Later, released from prison, Brick is appropriately cautious as Matt reenters society and beleaguered when Matt tries to find out the truth. Murder and menace color even the most improbable situations, and Brick makes it all believable. Coben's serpentine plot twists and Brick's intense performance make this choice listening. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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