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Title:

Split second

Author:

Baldacci, David, author.

Brick, Scott, narrator.

Series:

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Eight years after leaving the Secret Service following the assassination of the presidential candidate he had been protecting, Sean King reluctantly joins with agent Michelle Maxwell to uncover the truth when another candidate is abducted.

General Note:

Originally released in audio format by Time Warner AudioBooks in 2003.

Compact discs.

Edition:

Unabridged ed.

Physical Description:

10 sound discs (ca. 11.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Audiobooks.

Local Note:

Audio Editions

Author(s):

Brick, Scott,

Publisher:

Hachette Audio,

Publication Date:

2007

2003

ISBN:

9781600241345

Publication Information:

New York : Hachette Audio, [2007], p2003.

Call Number:

CDB BALDACC

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

Two Secret Service agents sworn to guard their protectees lost them in a single moment . . . and in this #1 New York Times bestseller, they're about to learn that the violence has just begun.

Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. 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. And the candidate he was protecting was gunned down before his eyes. 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.

Summary

Michelle Maxwell and Sean King are about to see their destinies converge. Drawn into a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, the two discredited Secret Service agents uncover a shocking truth; the separate acts of violence that shattered their careers, and lives, were really a long time in the making, and are a long way from over.

Author Notes

David Baldacci was born in Richmond, Virginia on August 5, 1960. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia. He practiced law in Washington D.C. as a trial and corporate lawyer.

His first novel, Absolute Power, was published in 1996. It won Britain's prestigious W.H. Smith's Thumping Good Read award for fiction in 1997 and was adapted as a movie starring Clint Eastwood. His other works include Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth, Saving Faith, True Blue, One Summer and End Game. He writes numerous series including King and Maxwell, Freddy and the French Fries, the Camel Club, Will Robie, Shaw and Katie James, John Puller, Vega Jane, and Amos Decker. He also published a novella entitled Office Hours and has authored five original screenplays.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

"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. 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). The novel is primarily a mystery, with lots of talk and untangling of clues, and a less than gripping one at that. 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. Eight years later, agent Michelle Maxwell lets the candidate she's watching enter a funeral parlor room alone; he's kidnapped. Then a body appears in the office of King, who's now a successful lawyer in North Carolina. Maxwell sees King on TV and decides to look into the event that caused his disgrace, so similar to hers. Meanwhile, King's old flame, Joan Dillinger, an ex-agent whose security firm has been hired to find the kidnapped presidential candidate, hires King to help in the hunt. 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. What saves this novel are a few strong but brief action sequences and, above all, the interplay among the principal characters, particularly the romantic tensions among King, Maxwell and Dillinger. This is, alas, Baldacci's weakest thriller in years-but with its terrific title, the Baldacci name and heavy promo, it's bound to hit the lists. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Library Journal Review

Former Secret Service Agent Sean King tries for vindication, having lost his job when the candidate he was protecting lost his life. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.