Review: Grabs your attention in the first few chapters
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2013
David Baldacci is at the top of his form in being able to grab your attention in the first few chapters. This free preview of the first 9 Chapters certainly makes me want to read the full book when it is published in mid November.Sean King and Michelle Maxwell - former Secret Service agents turned private investigators - are driving through a storm when they nearly hit a teenage boy, Tyler Wingo, wandering the highway in the dark. They find that he has fled his nearby home after hearing that his father has been killed in Afghanistan. When they take him home it is clear that there is no love lost with his stepmother. The next day Tyler contacts them directly and asks them to find out more about his father's death. What he doesn't tell them is that he has received a carefully worded email from his father - after the time he was said to have been killed.David Baldacci has created a range of compelling characters in his run of bestselling books - including Oliver Stone (and the Camel Club), John Puller and more recently Will Robie. It is great to see the return of King and Maxwell whose adventures with the Secret Service and as private investigators have been amongst the best of Baldacci's many successful thrillers.