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In Hour Game David Baldacci finally gets around to writing a serial killer plot--and his approach to that hoary old cliché is as inventive and ingenious as one would expect. His is not the first serial killer to perform his various atrocities in quotation marks and in the style of killers dead and gone, but Baldacci's does so with considerable ingenuity and for well-plotted reasons that are not mere games-playing. He also does so in a small community which a small epidemic of sudden horrible death tears apart--Baldacci is a small 'c' conservative for whom the nightmare of crime is the way that it affronts community and family, and in this, as in other books, he makes a not unappealing case for his value system. As with the equally ingenious Split Second, his investigators here are ex-Secret Service protection squad Michelle and Sean, now working together as private eyes on a case at first peripheral to the killings--clearing the name of a handyman accus! ed of burglary. When their client and his alleged victim join the death list, it all gets very personal. Baldacci is always crisp and clever and this lives up to his usual standards.--Roz KaveneyRead More

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    Ex-Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership and are investigating the robbery of some secret documents at the residence of the wealthy Battle family. It seems like a case of domestic burglary, but soon they begin to suspect links to more terrifying events now shaking the prosperous town of Writghtsburg.

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    A deadly serial killer says it's time to play... Following their collaboration in SPLIT SECOND ex-Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership and are investigating the robbery of some secret documents at the residence of the incredibly wealthy Battle family. It seems like a straightforward case of domestic burglary but soon they begin to suspect links to larger more terrifying events now shaking the prosperous town of Writghtsburg... The unidentified corpse of an attractive young woman turns up in the woods; two high school kids one shot in the back the other in the face are found dead in their car; a successful lawyer is discovered stabbed to death in her own home. A serial killer is on the loose. The murderer kills in the manner of famous killers of the past but takes care to leave a stopped watch at the scene of each crime - corresponding to the victim's position on his hit list. As the killing spree escalates it seems that the fractured Battle family are somehow involved and Maxwell and King suddenly find themselves racing to solve an intricate puzzle one that is full of tantalizing clues but barren of solid evidence and one that is leaving even the FBI confounded. And all the while the body count is rising...

  • 033041173X
  • 9780330411738
  • David Baldacci
  • 3 June 2005
  • Pan
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 400
  • New edition
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