The Guilty

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Kyf Brewer, Orlagh Cassidy

Special Agent Will Robie left his hometown in Mississippi when he was a teenager. Its residents remember him as a wild sports star and girl-magnet. He left a lot of hearts broken, and a lot of people angry.

Now, over twenty years later, he's back. His estranged father, Dan, who is the local judge, has been arrested for murder and Will wonders if it's time to try to heal old wounds. A lot of bad blood has flowed between father and son, but Robie's fellow agent, Jessica Reel, persuades him to stick around and confront his demons.

Then another murder changes everything, and stone-cold killer Robie will finally have to come to grips with his toughest assignment of all. His family.

The Guilty is the fourth thriller in the Will Robie series by David Baldacci, following on from The Innocent, The Hit and The Target.

Critic reviews

The page-turner of the season.

Baldacci is still peerless.

One of the world's biggest-selling thriller writers, Baldacci needs no introduction . . . Brilliant plotting, heart-grabbing action and characters to die for.

Good entertainment

I found this a good break from reality. It really helped me switch off from daily life.

Story good but audio book configuration terrible.

I liked the story and as usual it is hard to set down.
My problem is the configuration of the audio book, the chapters displayed are NOT the chapters playing. If for some reason you wish to go back a chapter, you can not as the chapters of the book are blocked into groups then each group is a displayed chapter. For example, on my phone, it displays chapter 5 but audio states and plays chapter 24. Very annoying.

Okay but not as good as the previous two books

It is a bit different story. Generally okay - entertaining as usual. But the end was a bit bland.

Hard to Believe

The story was very convoluted and hard to believe. It needed a 10 minutes story from the bad guy to explain what happened.