The story of Deliver Us From Evil
Deliver Us From Evil is a book with a dual perspective, dual protagonist center. It is about the mysterious Agent Shaw (no first name given, and this book is a continuation of his story. It is also about a new character to Baldacci, a character named Reggie. She is part of a secret vigilante group, and their main mission is to destroy or remove any living war criminals post WWII. The book starts with Reggie as a maid for an old German officer of the war. She helps him to bed, and later in the night comes back to assassinate the man. The trademark for her group is to show the assassinated the faces of people they killed during the time of their reign. She finishes the job, and then flashes forward to the present, where she is assigned the job of killing a man named Fedir Kuchin, who was a Russian officer. He was a mass murderer who killed millions during his service. The kill point will be on his holiday in Provence, France. At the same time, Shaw and his partner think they are going after a man named Evan Waller (Fedir with a new name), who is a drug and weapons trafficker. They have the same plan. Naturally, Shaw and Reggie meet in a coffee shop, and start to form a relationship without knowing they are each after the same man. Shaw's partner suddenly says that the mission has been recalled, and Shaw must leave. Shaw decides to ignore his partner and stays with Reggie. He and Reggie soon learn of each other's plans, and Shaw is on his last day off being in Provence, and “leaves”. Reggie’s group carried out their plan,can't it backfires while showing Evan his victims. Shaw saves the day, but they all get captured by Evan and his men. Evan then takes them to one of his houses in Canada, where he plays a hunter-prey game with his prisoners (kind of similar to The Dangerous Game). The prey win, and Reggie and Shaw go on a few dates before Shaw ends the relationship because of his past with Katie Johnson (you'll have to read the past book for more on that). That's basically the entire plot.
Character analysis:
Shaw is a mysterious character with little backstory explained in this book, but is better explained in the first
Reggie is a new character, female, beautiful and British. She works for a group in which they strive to kill all surviving war criminals
Fedir Kuchin (Evan Waller) is a stone hearted billionaire who is an ex-Russian officer who killed millions of people (nicknamed the “Butcher of Kiev).
Character analysis:
Shaw is a mysterious character with little backstory explained in this book, but is better explained in the first
Reggie is a new character, female, beautiful and British. She works for a group in which they strive to kill all surviving war criminals
Fedir Kuchin (Evan Waller) is a stone hearted billionaire who is an ex-Russian officer who killed millions of people (nicknamed the “Butcher of Kiev).