标题：时间游戏
时间游戏
英文名：Hour Game
作　　者/Author:David Baldacci 著  出  版  社/Publisher:Pan Macmillan
中文书名/Chinese Title:时间游戏
ISBN:9780330517799
出版时间/Publication Date:2010-07-02
页　　数/Pages:624
装　　帧/Format:平装
纸　　张/Paper:胶版纸
正文语种/Language:英文
所属分类/Category:图书 > 英文原版书 > Mystery & Thrillers（神秘与惊悚）
定        价：￥82.80
京  东  价：￥45.40（55折）
内容简介
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.
中文简介
他模仿著名的连环杀手,比赛才刚刚开始。
一个女人发现了在森林里。它看起来像一个简单的情况下,很快就会变成一个可怕的恶梦。升级有人复制杀死风格的最臭名昭著的凶手。没有人知道这个犯罪的动机…谁会死的下一个。
两个ex-Secret服务代理商,肖恩国王和米歇尔出版社,已经被雇用保卫一个人是无辜卷入了在盗窃贵族,不正常的家庭。然后一系列秘密引导合作伙伴直接进入疯狂的捕猎,甚至是混杂了联邦调查局。现在国王和麦克斯韦打小时的游戏,揭露一个接一个恐怖的启示,把他们的生命处于危险中。他们能对越接近真相,越接近他们进入令人震惊的惊奇。
作者简介
David Baldacci was born in Virginia, in 1960, where he currently resides. He received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. Mr. Baldacci practiced law for nine years in Washington, D.C., as both a trial and corporate attorney. David Baldacci has published 14 novels and a young adult series, Freddy and the French Fries. He has also published a novella for the Dutch entitled Office Hours , written for Holland's Year 2000 "Month of the Thriller." Baldacci authored a short story, The Mighty Johns, as part of a mystery anthology published in 2002. His works have been in numerous worldwide magazines, newspapers, journals, and publications. Baldacci has authored seven original screenplays. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold in more than 80 countries. All of his books have been national and international bestsellers. Over 50 million copies of Mr. Baldacci's books are in print worldwide. Castle Rock entertainment made Absolute Power (Warner Books, 1996) into a major motion picture starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman. The novel Absolute Power won Britain's W.H. Smith's Thumping Good Read award for fiction in 1997, and was nominated for a literary award in Italy. Absolute Power was selected for People Magazine's "Page Turner of the Week." Absolute Power won the 1996 Gold Medal Award for Best Mystery/Thriller from the Southern Writers Guild.
戴维·鲍尔达奇，1960年出生于美国弗吉尼亚，从中学开始就养成了写作的习惯，习惯于专注观察周遭事物以获取灵感。从维吉尼亚联邦大学获得政治学学士学位后，他又从维吉尼亚大学获得了法学学位。作为一名辩护律师和商务律师，鲍尔达奇先生在华盛顿法律界工作了9年，丰富的司法经验为他从事推理、犯罪小说写作奠定了深厚的基础。1996年，鲍尔达奇出版了他的第一部长篇小说《绝对权力》，该书随即成为了全美畅销书，并获得多项文学大奖。此后，戴维·鲍尔达奇几乎以每年一本新书的速度，迅速成为美国畅销小说界的新星。他的书被翻译成37种语言，发行多达80多个国家，全球销售量超过四千万册。
媒体评论
"Baldacci's last book, Split Second, was a relatively weak offering from this bestselling author, sunk by a cartoonish villain and absurd plot. But it did introduce two of Baldacci's (Absolute Power, etc.) most memorable characters, former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, in business together as private investigators in smalltown Wrightsburg, Va. Baldacci is back in form, and King and Maxwell reappear in this utterly absorbing, complex mystery-thriller that spins in unexpected directions. The novel starts as a serial-killer thriller, for there's a murderer at work in Wrightsburg whose selection of victims appears random but whose modus operandi, differing from kill to kill, mimics the work of a notorious serial killer—the Zodiac killer, John Wayne Gacy, etc. The fifth victim is local resident and international tycoon Robert E. Lee Battle. King and Maxwell have already been tangling with the gothic horror show of a dysfunctional Southern family that is the Battles, as they've been hired to help prove the innocence of a Battle handyman accused of stealing from the family. Then that handyman is murdered, and the duo (along with a clueless local sheriff and an obnoxious FBI agent) must race to figure out if the same killer is behind all the murders and, if so, why. There are terrific action sequences sprinkled throughout, and plenty of suspense, and the King/Maxwell relationship, while not romantic, emits sparks. It's Baldacci's portrayal of smalltown Southern life, however, and his sharp characterizations of the Battles, from the bombastic Bobby and his regal widow to his weird extended family, that give the novel texture and depth: this is Baldacci's most accomplished tale since his nonthriller Wish You Well, and it rivals that novel in its social commentary. Despite fair clues, few if any readers will ID the villain (villains?) before they're revealed, and a snappy surprise ending will have Baldacci's many fans remembering why they love this author so much. "
--Publishers Weekly
"Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, the former Secret Service agents from Baldacci's previous outing, Split Second (2003), are on the trail of a serial killer in this new novel. King and Maxwell have just gone into business together as private investigators when Michelle discovers the body of a young woman in the woods. The body was posed with a wristwatch stopped at 1:00. Two high-school students are the next victims; both have watches on their wrists--the boy's reads 2:00, the girl's 3:01. King and Maxwell aid the police while working on their own case: a burglary in the house of Remmy Battle, a wealthy, tough southerner whose husband, Bobby, lies in a coma at the local hospital. The prime suspect is Junior Deaver, whose fingerprints are found at the crime scene. But Junior swears he's innocent. The victim list keeps growing: a successful high-powered lawyer and then Bobby Battle himself. Soon King begins to suspect that the serial killer might not be choosing his victims at random, and he believes one of the murders is the work of a different killer. The plot doesn't hold together perfectly, even starting out a bit slow, but it recovers to build to an exciting finish. "
--Kristine Huntley
“Baldacci的最后一本书,一刹那,是一个相对薄弱的祭,沉没这个畅销书作家由一个卡通式的恶棍和荒谬的阴谋。但这并没有向两个Baldacci(绝对的权力等)最令人难忘的人物,前特勤局特工肖恩国王和米歇尔马克斯韦尔,在商业一起在smalltown Wrightsburg私人调查员,梵谛冈。Baldacci回归形式,国王和麦克斯韦重现在这个完全吸收,复杂的mystery-thriller旋转以意想不到的方向。这部小说开始作为一个serial-killer惊悚片,因为有一个杀人犯在工作的Wrightsburg选择的受害者,但他们的做法出现随机的,同时由于冬自杀死杀生,模仿一个臭名昭著的串行killer-the工作黄道十二宫杀手约翰·韦恩Gacy等。第五受害者是当地居民及国际巨头罗伯特。e。李的战斗。国王和麦克斯韦已经纠缠的哥特式恐怖表示一个不正常的家庭是南部战斗,因为他们已经被雇来帮助证明清白打杂的战斗中被指控偷这个家庭。那心灵手巧的人被杀死,哆(连同一个无能的地方治安官和一个令人讨厌的联邦调查局特工人员)必须种族判断出同样的杀手谋杀背后,如果是这样,为什么。有很棒的散布在动作场景,以及丰富的悬念,国王/马克士威的关系,而不是浪漫的,能发出火花。这是Baldacci本片对smalltown南方的生活,然而,他精明的刻画的战役,从夸张的鲍比和他的高贵的寡妇他的古怪大家庭,即给予的小说结构和深度:这是最成功的故事的Baldacci自从他nonthriller希望你一切都好,和它的竞争对手,小说在其社会评论。尽管公平的线索,极少有读者将身份证坏蛋(坏人?)才会被揭露的,一个响亮的惊讶的结尾会有Baldacci的许多球迷记住他们为什么喜欢这个作家如此多。“
——出版商每周
“肖恩国王和米歇尔出版社,前者的特勤局特工从Baldacci之前的郊游,一刹那(2003),是一位连环杀手的踪迹在这部新小说。国王和麦克斯韦刚刚进入商业一起当米歇尔发现私人调查员的身体,一个年轻的女人在树林里。尸体被带来了一个手表停在一点。两个高中生就是下一个受害者,而且在他们的手腕手表——男孩读两点,女孩的3:01。国王和麦克斯韦援助警察工作的同时,在自己的案例:盗窃殿的Remmy战役中,一个富有而又艰难的南方人,她的丈夫,鲍比,关键在于昏迷在当地的医院。头号嫌疑犯Deaver资历比,其指纹都是犯罪现场的指纹相吻合。但初级发誓他是无辜的。受害人列表将会不断地在增长:一个成功的高性能律师然后博比战斗自己。王就开始怀疑连环杀手可能不是随机选择他的受害者,他认为其中一个谋杀的工作不同的杀手。情节并不持有的完美,甚至开始慢了一点,但它恢复建立一场激动人心的完成。“
——Kristine亨特利