Editorial Product Review:Amazon.com:Two disgraced former Secret Service officers team up to solve a series of copy-cat crimes in this exciting new thriller by a master of the game. Sean King was momentarily distracted when a presidential candidate he'd been guarding was assassinated a few feet from where he stood, and Michelle Maxwell left the Service under a similar cloud when she lost a 'protectee' to an ingenious kidnapping scheme, events told in Baldacci's typical terse, fast-paced style in
Split Second. Now partners in a private investigation firm in a small Virginia town, they're hired to investigate a burglary at the home of a wealthy local family. But even before the chief suspect in the break-in meets his death in a gruesome slaying reminiscent of a serial killer long since caught and punished, King and Maxwell get caught up in a string of other murders, each of which copies the techniques of another madman, from San Francisco's Zodiac Killer to Chicago's infamous John Wayne Gacy. While the two protagonists aren't especially complex or well-developed, the action never stops, and Baldacci's trademark pacing keeps the reader turning pages until the denouement, which unfortunately isn't quite as satisfying as the rest of the novel.
--Jane Adams
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He's copying famous serial killers and the game has just begun.
A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives...or who will die next.
Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man's innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic, dysfunctional family. Then a series of secrets leads the partners right into the frantic hunt that is confounding even the FBI. Now King and Maxwell are playing the Hour Game, uncovering one horrifying revelation after another and putting their lives in danger. For the closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to the most shocking surprise
of all.
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- Good Read but....
This was my first book with the Michelle Maxwell & Sean King characters. It was "ok". I enjoyed it, but the pace wasn't consistent. It did have a lot of characters, but was nonetheless interesting.
I enjoyed Simple Genius a lot more.
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Great suspense book! Couldn't put it down!
Awesome book! Quick read because I could not put it down in soite of 490 pages. Highy recommend!
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Badly Written - Laughable Characters & Dialogue
This book might have been funny, had it not been quite so lame and badly written as it was. The publisher should be boycotted for putting this one on the market! To say that the co-protagonists are "cartoonish" is being kind. The author gives them their only dimension via having them gush admiration for one another. I enjoy a complex book with a lot of characters, except when those are as badly conceived as had been the case in this book. Not having previously read any books by this author, I'd initially wondered if this one were meant to be a farce, but the plodding tedium soon dispelled that notion. The laughs turned to groans of astonishment that anyone who could write so badly had ever produced a best seller! This book was truly pitiful!
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Good Book
Although there are lots of boring parts such as Michelle visiting eddies battle, but other than that this was a pretty good book with a good ending
