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The Innocent

P.I. Jack Marconi Series, Book 1

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The Innocent

By: Vincent Zandri
Narrated by: Joe Hempel
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They call him Keeper, but lately Jack Marconi has specialized in losing things. Just last year, he lost his wife in a mysterious traffic accident, and ever since, he's felt like he's losing his mind. As the warden of the maximum security Green Haven Prison, home to 2,500 of New York's most hardened criminals, Marconi can't afford to drop focus, even for an instant. But he's been slipping up on the job, and he's tormented by flashbacks to the Attica uprising. All of which makes him ripe for the role of patsy when a convicted cop killer named Eduardo Vasquez stages a daring breakout on his watch.

From the start, Marconi suspects an inside job. What he doesn't suspect is that he'll become the target of a frame-up. Soon drugs are planted in Marconi's office, embarrassing photos are circulated, and he finds himself facing trumped-up charges of obstruction of justice. With his supervisors clearly setting him up to take the fall, Marconi hatches a desperate scheme to clear his name. Kidnapping the escaped killer's girlfriend, he arms himself with a .45 and takes off in pursuit of Vasquez-and the truth.

Once sworn to uphold the law, Marconi will have to elude it if he wants to bring this conspiracy to light. Otherwise Keeper could lose everything: his job, his reputation—and even his life.

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The innocent is my 54th book by Vincent Zandri that. I’ve read or listened to. Because it’s a Jack Marconi PI thriller I expected it to be like the three previous Jack Marconi books I recently listened to.

Well, I couldn’t have been more worn in my assumption. As I got past my Jack Marconi paradigm, I realized The Innocent was more like The Remains, my introduction to Vin Zandri some three years ago, than any of the recent shorter Dick Moonlight, Jack Marconi, and Steve Jobz stories I’ve been listening to. The Innocent is a serious thriller with a complex plot and characters who will surprise and infuriate you.

When I began listening to Joe Hempel, I had fully intended on listening to no more than a third of the book and then taking care of my to-do list that couldn’t be accomplished while listening to a book. About nine hours later I took out my ear buds and settled back in my chair completely blown away by the story and Joe’s narration.

If you enjoy thrillers that keep you hooked and on the edge of your seat rooting for the underdog, You owe it to yourself to grab a copy of the Innocent and settle in or an awesome read, or grab the audiobook and let Joe Hempel tell you the story while you close your eyes and watch the movie unfold.

This is Vin Zandri at his best!

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