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True Blue

Written by David Baldacci

Narrated by Ron McLarty

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything-her badge, her career, her freedom-and 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, and prove she has the right to wear the uniform. But even with her police chief sister on her side, she has to work in the shadows: A vindictive U.S. attorney is looking for any reason to send Mace back behind bars. Then Roy Kingman enters her life.

Roy is a young lawyer who aided the poor until he took a high-paying job at a law firm in Washington. Mace and Roy meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they investigate the death, they start uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation's capital.

Soon, what began as a fairly routine homicide takes a terrifying and unexpected turn-into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal.
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Release dateOct 27, 2009
ISBN9781600247705
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David Baldacci

David Baldacci is one of the world’s bestselling and favourite thriller writers. A former trial lawyer with a keen interest in world politics, he has specialist knowledge in the US political system and intelligence services, and his first book, Absolute Power, became an instant international bestseller, with the movie starring Clint Eastwood a major box office hit. He has since written more than forty bestsellers featuring Amos Decker, Aloysius Archer, Atlee Pine and John Puller. 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. Trust him to take you to the action.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Synopsis: Mace Perry is getting out of jail. She's been there for two years for something she didn't do. Her goal is not only to right this wrong but to gain back her place with the police. Her sister, who is the police chief, wants to do this, as well. However, their methods differ significantly. In the process of working on the problem Mace uncovers wrong doings that reach all the way to the White House.Review: Baldacci does a good job of writing about strong women without stereotyping them.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A great audiobook while doing the treadmill. I do like Baldacci who always gives me a good story, well-developed characters, and nothing too gross to deal with.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    READ IN DUTCH

    I had read a few books by David Baldacci, and thought they were OK, but this book disappointed me a bit.

    The 'strong' female main character -who's only just released out of prison after being convicted for murder - is just so annoying!

    The story itself, wasn't really anything special either. I must have read multiple books like this, and in the end it al become a bit of a blur.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    parts of the plot were a little unbelieveable, but a good story; seems like this should be book 1 in a series
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Mace was a DC cop who lost everything when she was convicted of a crime that she didn't commit. Now that she is out of jail, she wants her badge back - but, to get it she must find out who set her up. Another solid Baldacci book that has fun characters, a well told story and just enough detail to keep the book moving along.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime, spending two years in prison. Roy Kingman is a young lawyer working for a high-paying law firm in D.C., Mace and Roy meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm in the kitchen refrigerator. As they investagate the death, they start uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation's capital.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Not bad, but by no means vintage Baldacci. The characters are not nearly as polished as in for example, the Camel Club series. Hopefully, if the author intends to write more with these characters this will improve. It felt decidedly clunky and wooden at times.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Book held my listening interest...a crime whodunit in Washington DC with lots of twists that make it interesting. The thesis, the sister of the DC Chief of Police trying to get reinstated as a "blue," was a bit unbelievable--Connelly could have done better with that one. However, the characters seemed well developed to me.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I struggled with this, though I did finish it. I just found the characters annoying and the plot even more unbelievable than thrillers normally are.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It has been sometime since reading 'True Blue' but from memory it was certainly worth the read. I received Zero Day for Christmas and look forward to reading it, also.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Baldacci missed with this one. It was a far-fetched premise and the characters didn't pull it off.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    My first Baldacci... I LOVED it! Strong women, living very different lives than I do, but compelling characters and a well-wrought plot that left me wanting more Perry sisters!!!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I've tried several, and just am not a big Baldacci book fan. This one I had on CD, and it was entertaining enough -- but so entirely implausible that I really could never buy into it. The best part was the portrayal of the two Perry sisters, framed and disgraced (and scrappy!) former D.C. cop Mace, and her sister, intelligent, capable (and patient!) Beth, chief of the Washington D.C. police force. I liked the way their relationship was depicted.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of the things I love about Baldacci's books is where they are set, DC, MD, and NoVA. I worked there, so I know all the areas he refers too well. True Blue is set around a pair of sisters, the Perry's. One is DC's Chief of Police, the other an ex-cop who got framed for armed robbery and put in jail for 2 years. When Mace (ex-cop) gets out, she stumbles onto a murder in a law firm, and it takes hold of her. Her sister Beth tries to keep her out of trouble, but once Mace digs in, she never lets go. But Mace soon finds out this is no ordinary murder, there are high stakes, professionals, and top resources involved in this murder, and those involved will do anything to cover it up.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I tried - I really did - but after 105 pages I just gave up. Unrealistic, with unlikely characters - it was too much for me.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Fast-paced and exciting, with just the right amount of sexual tension. Great ending, not what you expect, though.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I am a big Baldacci but I thought this did not live up to his other stories. Mace (the disgraced sister) was annoying and I could not really relate to her and her sister (Chief of Police) was too good to be true. If there is a sequel I will be hard-pressed to read it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I can always depend on a good read from Baldacci. Mason Perry is a former cop who was unjustly convicted of a crime. The book opens as she is released from prison. Her sister Beth, is the chief of Metropolitan DC police. "Mace" has rules to follow based on her probation, but she investigates a current crime, having tagged along with her sister to the crime scene. Does this crime tie into the crime for which she was tried? Mace and Beth have a nemesis by the name of Mona Danforth, the current US attorney for the District of Columbia, who will stop at nothing to win a case. Beth and Mace's father used to hold this position. Beth has arranged for work for Mace with Dr. Abraham Altman, a very wealthy professor who has a project for her. Roy Kingman, an attorney with the law firm where a crime has been committed, helps Mace in her investigations, while he is under scrutiny for a murder. All the loose threads are neatly tied together by the end of the book. A fun read.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Disappointing for a Baldacci novel. The characters were lame and the plot ridiculous.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Sisters - DC Police Chief, ex cop, ex con solving a case together in this age of ambiguous patriotism and how far are the powers willing to go to preserve and protect our nation.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Despite a few plot improbabilities (e.g. bad guys accepting challenges they lose), the book goes at a cracking pace and keeps you interested. Mace Perry is a former Washington cop (a maverick naturally) who fresh out of prison finds herself investigating a murder with sinister overtones.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another good read from this author. Not quite up to par with his Camel Club series but, still a good story line that keeps the reader turning the pages to find out what will happen next. I forsee the author continuing the story of the Perry sisters in future books.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Former hot-shot Washington, D.C. cop, Mason "Mace" Perry gets released from prison after serving a two year term which she says resulted when she was set up.Returning to Washington, where her sister, Beth, is the Chief of Police, Mace wants nothing more than to clear her name and get her job back. However, she knows that she can't do anything official. She feels that one way to get back on the job is if she can solve a big case.Improbably, her sister, Beth, brings her to a murder scene. It would seem unlikely that a Police Chief would taint a murder scene by bringing a family member who is an ex-con.Mace meets Roy Kingman at the scene. Roy discovered a body at his office and is interviewed by the police. When the police leave, Mace has more questions. The two of them find something in common and agree to work together, unofficially, to see if they can find the person who raped and murdered Roy's co-worker.The next development is when U.S. Attorney, Jamie Meldon's body is found in a dumpster. Beth and her team meet the FBI at the scene but are ordered off the case by an unnamed higher authority.As Beth is investigating, Mace overhears her speaking to acting District Attorney Mora Danforth. It was Mora who prosecuted Mace and sent her to prison and she would like nothing more that to see Mace make a mistake so Mora could send her back.The action is strong and constant but the reader must suspend their sense of logic too many times to read this as anything more than a fantasy. At one point, Roy and Mace face a gang leader named Psycho who intends to kill them. Roy challanges him to a game of one-on-one basketball for their lives. (Another hard scene for a reader to view as plausable). There is also a scene where Mace is locked in a fridge which has a chain around it. How she manages to escape should be in the comics.I went past these unlikely scenes and found the book to be entertaining, just not believable. The plot was hard to believe and the ending wasn't plausable.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Well this is the first time I didn't even finish a David Baldacci book. I have loved every novel he's written but could not get into this book. I got half way through and found I never wanted to pick it up so returned it to the library unfinished. I didn't particularly like the characters (I found Mace extremely annoying for some reason...her name? who knows). Anyway, sorry David - this one didn't do it for me.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is a SCARY book. The plot is scary, the characters scare the living blankety blank out of me, and the premise is nightmarish because it is so real.It has a well developed, tightly written plot with many twists, surprises, and heart-stopping developments. Within the first 5 minutes of this audio, we have a US attorney murdered and his body stuffed in a dumpster by ??? --- are they good guys or bad guys??? This question will drop to the bottom of the dumpster with the body and only reappear much later in the book. In the meantime we have a female prisoner being molested by a guard and threatened by other inmates while she's trying to hold on for 3 more days until her release. And we have a high powered, big money corporate attorney discovering the body of a colleague in his office refrigerator when he goes for cream for his morning coffee.It has characters whose actions sometimes require us to suspend belief, (what would you do if you were facing a gang of hoodlums with automatic weapons??---I won't spoil it, but I'm not sure my choice would have been the one written). Our heroine is constatly ignoring common sense, speeding off on her Dukati, and getting into all kinds of trouble, but like WonderWoman, she manages to extricate herself---all without a gun, and often without the help of her sister the Police Chief or her buddy the lawyer !!The good guys are almost stereotypical--the blond female Washington DC police chief Beth Perry; her sister Mason (Mase)--a cop wrongly accused of dealing drugs who has recently been released from prison and is trying to clear her name and get her badge and gun back; Ron Kingman, a college basketball star turned corporate attorney who befriends a homeless Vietnam vet by giving him shoes, twinkies, and keeping tabs to be sure he's ok. Cap'n (the homeless vet) is one of the most fun characters in the book. He provides a few sad but comic moments in a very intense book.The bad guys are numerous and often masquerade as good guys. The good guys aren't above a little law breaking if it serves their purpose. In fact, one of the scariest aspects of this book is that it's hard to tell who's who----good guy? bad guy? The story is almost a political commentary on the state of US national security today and the scariest premise of all is that this kind of activity is going on in the name of national security, and none of us will ever know, or could do a thing about it if we did know.As an audio, it is well served by Ron McClartey's crime reporter voice. I just wish that Hachette would not have included all the sound effects that seem to be de rigeur in today's MTV world. I want to listen to the book. I don't want a stage production. My mind still works and I want to be able to IMAGINE the bullets zinging, the motorcycles zooming, the cars crashing. And.. Please............the "dum dah, dum dah, dum dah" music used to fade into and out of scenes reminds me of JAWS. I almost expected a shark to pop up. It will be bad enough when they make this a movie (and you know they will!) and we have to see all this. Until then, I'd rather paint my own mental pictures thank you.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book is a new story line with new characters that I hope is just the beginning. The story is set in DC with an interesting mix of DC police, FBI, and intellegence agencies. The characters are great as always and I think you will see trait similarities between Mace and previous Baldacci characters. I would definitely recommend this book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A sequel will certainly be forthcoming. Mason Perry, AKA Mace, still has not been cleared to rejoin the DC police. I have to wonder why not? She handled a Russian assassin, some CIA wetwork specialists, a ghetto thug named "Psycho", and a publicity hound of a DA. That's enough for me.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Oh this one was a hoot!Lianna Kong started her blog "to create an entertaining procrastination tool...and provide a space where my friends and I could anonymously confess our neuroses." Soon people she didn't know were sending in their quirks. And a year later, they've been compiled into this book - i am neurotic. Everything included in the book was sent into the blog. Each neuroses is accompanied by a colour photo illustration by Matthew Stacey.Well, like what Luanne?Aligning the strings of people's hoodies.Throwing out your pen if someone else touches it.Alphabetizing your canned goods.Tacks must be in rainbow order. Crayons in heatscale order.Aligning the hangers in a department store.Alternately - having something out of place, so it's not 'perfect'.Eggs must always be in pairs in the carton.Oh there's a lot more. But I saw myself when I read this one - "Whenever I buy a new book, I have to bury my nose in between a few random pages and take in a deep breath."Just a fun book to leaf through. Anyone who likes Postsecret will appreciate i am neurotic.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another great story from Baldacci. It didn't take me long to get through this one since I was on the edge of my seat almost the whole time!I loved Mace and Beth. They have a awesome relationship and cherish their bond as sisters. Always there for each other, but allowed to really tell it like it is. I think they were the reason that I really liked this book. They both have amazing attitudes and Mace's sense of humor often had me laughing out loud. I'd have liked a little more personal background or personal sidestories for Beth, but there was so much going on with Mace that it might not have worked well. I loved that the book was based on two tough females. Beth in a high ranking profession and Mace fighting her way back up from the bottom after a stint in prison.Roy was an interesting character. At first, I really wasn't sure that I liked him. He seemed way to wimpy and passive. Yet, as the story went on, I decided that he was pretty cool. He stepped up when Mace needed him and stuck by her through this crazy investigation.I was a little bummed with the ending. There were certain aspects that I'd have liked a little more info on. It's hard to mention which aspects without spoiling the story. Overall, I loved it. It's got the same political undercurrents and cop stuff as some of his other books. While sometimes a turn off for women readers, this one is awesome since the primary characters are women.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The book was well read by Ron McLarty. There were some odd words and phrases that had dissonance to my ear. These were, I suspect a result of the differences between the written and spoken language, but it was not intrusive. The characters were interesting and well developed. The plot was complex, interweaving treads from the perspective of several characters, but not confusingly so. The story starts with in prison with Mason Perry (Mas) having a very bad and scary day...well it was scary to me. A guard who paws. "Ladies" who are big and threatening mayham after lights out. It's after the nightly lock up. Her door opens. A woman enters. A cop. The chief of cops. Her sister. So begins the fast moving thriller! Hang on tightly. That was just the start! It's an amazing bookl Thank you Hauchette who lets me review books with no further expectation other than it be my own honest opinion.