Split Second (King & Maxwell Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (753 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1600240917 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 315 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Two of my favorite fictional detectives" according to Mike Billington author of Corpus Delectable. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are among my favorite fictional detectives and in "Split Second" author David Baldacci spins a tale about how they first met and, eventually, became partners with their own agency.It's an interesting story; one that details how a momentary distraction caused King to look away at the precise momen. Michael Sholders said Entertaining Intrique Mixed With Interesting Characters.. **** For pure entertainment and reading pleasure, this was great. It took two different incidents spread apart by 8 years involving Secret Service members who lost their protectee, and placed these two events together in a thrilling adventure that ended up joining the two ex -Secret Service agents into a new partnership of Kin. Dan Berger said A bit too much of a soap opera in the end. This was my first read of a David Baldacci book. I don’t know if I’ll be back.I liked it through the first half. I liked the premise of two Secret Service agents, each professionally disgraced by an attack on the presidential candidate they were respectively guarding, drawn to each other to dig deeper into the crim
From Publishers Weekly "We just solved a huge, complicated mystery," says one protagonist to another in this latest novel from the bestselling author of Last Man Standing, Absolute Power, etc. It begins in 1996, when Secret Service agent Sean King is distracted-by what isn't revealed until near the book's end-just when the presidential candidate he's guarding is shot dead. The narrative ties binding the characters don't loosen much over the novel's course, as curious cross-currents flow between the two cases, all leading to a cinematic but off-the-wall denouement that reveals a villain who is more cartoon than human. And that is the problem: this story of two disgraced Secret Service agents who come together to solve two campaign-trail crimes doesn't play to Baldacci's strengths, which are suspense and action (as well as strong characterizations; here's one thriller author who writes people that readers care about). Then a body appears in the office of King, who's now a succ
And the candidate he was protecting was gunned down before his eyes. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment, and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into thin air. Sean King knows how the younger agent feels. Eight years earlier, the hard-charging Secret Service agent allowed his attention to be diverted for a split second. Now Michelle and Sean are about to see their destinies converge.Drawn into a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, the two discredited agents uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making-and are a long way from over. The world can change forever in a singleSPLIT SECONDMichelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service