Split Second

By: David Baldacci

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Paperback | 1 September 2004 | Edition Number 1

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'He was the only one in the room who could see it. His attention stayed there for one beat, two beats, three beats, far too long. Yet who could blame him for not being able to pull his gaze away from that?'

When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him his career and presidential candidate Clyde Ritter, his life. But what stole his attention? And why was Ritter shot?

Eight years later Michelle Maxwell is on the fast track through the ranks of the Secret Service when her career is stopped short: Presidential candidate John Bruno is abducted from a funeral home while under her protection.

The similarity between the two cases drives Michelle to re-open investigations into the Ritter fiasco and join forces with attractive ex-agent King. The pair are determined to get to the bottom of what happened in those critical moments.

Meanwhile, high-ranking members of the legal system and key witnesses from both cases are going missing. King is losing friends, colleagues and clients fast and his ex-lover, Joan Dillinger, is playing curious games - she wants Sean back, but she also owes him for something...

Author Biography: David Baldacci is the nine-time New York Times best-selling author of Absolute power, Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth, Saving Faith, Wish You well, Last Man Standing, The Christmas Train and Split Second. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.

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Eight years apart, two Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, lost their presidential candidate charges to an assassination and a kidnapping respectively. Now, as Maxwell attempts to recover her missing politician, connections seem to be appearing between the two incidents. As the body count rises, King and Maxwell join together to solve the crimes that have ruined their careers. It is not difficult to fathom David Baldacci's popularity: 'Split Second' is a pacy novel that keeps its secrets tantalisingly out of the reader's reach until the quite extraordinary climax. The dialogue occasionally descends to B-movie level but the overall quality of the storytelling keeps the enterprise on track. There are moments where the levels of paranoia are ratcheted so high that suspicion falls on every single character. This intrigue adds greatly to the reader's enjoyment of yet another thoroughbred thriller from the Baldacci stable that has already produced the best-selling 'Absolute Power' and 'Last Man Standing'. (Kirkus UK)

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