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Summary: It Is What It Is ¿ and Its Entertaining Besides
Review: I admit it. I am surprised by the hostile nature of so many of this book's reviews. I think it is a great thriller. David Baldacci has created an intricate plot that sees the lives of two discredited Secret Service Agents converge. The story charges ahead, making the book difficult to put down. What more can you ask for from a novel written to entertain?
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Summary: Gripping Book, Dwindling Plot
Review: As a fan of David Baldacci, I really looked forward to this book, Split Second. The author kept me interested with great characters and intrigue. The relationships between the characters are well-developed, and I found my self caring for them. I especially appreciate not having to wade through tawdry sex scenes and an abundance of foul language. Although the believability of the plot falls apart about 3/4 of the way through the book, I hung in there for the characters. The ending sets up the possibility of a sequel - I certainly hope so for these great characters. And maybe the ending will be plausible.
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Summary: Split Second
Review: I was looking for a "page turner" from an author who had been a best seller. It was very good until I was about 75% through it. Then, he began to mix so many characters and plots that it became confusing. I couldn't keep everything straight from the time I put it down for a couple of days until I finally finished. A real disappontment!
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Summary: Tension Galore, Some Romance and Even a Mystery too
Review: Eight years ago Secret Service Agent Sean King was distracted for a split second and Clyde Ritter, the presidential candidate he was protecting, was assassinated. It cost his job and now he's started a new life as an attorney and he's living on a fifteen-acre spread in the Blue Ridge Mountains. In the present day Secret Service Agent Michelle Maxwell is guarding presidential candidate John Bruno, when Bruno insists on being alone in a funeral parlor to pay his last respects to a friend. Bruno is kidnapped and Michelle's Secret Service career is in the tank. However she thinks there are some similarities between the disappearance of Bruno and the assassination of Ritter and she starts quietly investigating. Not long after King comes so work to find a body on the floor. Michele and King link up. More bodies pile up and there is a passel of suspects. Someone is killing witness or witnesses go missing. Kings friends, colleagues and clients don't want to know him. Add King's ex-lover, a gal with the last name of Dillinger into the mix, lots of bad guys and questionable cops and you wind up with a heck of a story that kept me reading the night away. Tension galore, some romance even and mystery too. Reviewed by Lenore Douglass
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Summary: wow
Review: I picked up this book and a discount book store. It is the first time i have read one of his books. I loved it. As i was perusing some of the other reviews, I noticed how harsh people were being of this book. I am not a writer, but i read an average of a book per week, and i couldn't find anything wrong with this story. I plan to seek out his other 2 books and see what it is I have been missing. His characters were beautifully developed, which is a huge selling factor for me. If i don't feel some type of emotion towards the players in the story, i don't want to waste my time reading the book. I didn't know whether to love or hate Joan. Sean reminded me of Sean Connery's version of James Bond. Michelle is an empowered yet soft female. The story moved along at breakneck speed, and i was at the end before i knew it. It was a hard book to put down.
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Summary: Wait for this in paperback
Review: If David Baldacci had found a better way to conclude this book, I would have rated it much higher. As it is, I thought it was an interesting mystery. Two Secret Service agents are involved in a violent act being carried out against the people they were sworn to protect. One is assasinated. Sean King is the agent on that one. One is abducted. Michelle Maxwell is in charge of that one. Eight years seperates the two acts. Yet, the acts are linked and more people are about to die as the two agents start investigating the incidents and start turning up rocks that people don't want moved. There are numerous suprises and many things are not what they seem. I liked the book, but I did not love it. Maybe you want to wait for the paperback issue.
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Summary: Not David's best
Review: An OK book, but I found myself lost several times and had to flip back and forth to refresh my memory on certain people. And also, what's with the psycho running circles over and over again around two highly trained Secret Service agents? I just had a hard time buying into that one.
I'm not sure what David was goign for in this book. "Last Man Standing" kept me rivited, one of the best books I've ever read, but he really seems fall a bit flat on character development in this book. I would like to have seen an extra 100 pages to bring more personality to the novel.
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Summary: Average Mystery Novel
Review: There was nothing that stands out in this novel, whether it be positive or negative. The story is about two Secret Service agents, each who have lost a charge in the line of duty, who team up and learn that their two incidents are possibly related, despite the eight year time difference. The characters and story were not nearly as engrossing as those in Last Man Standing. The dynamic between the main characters provided for some entertainment and there were a few actions sequences that were exciting. However, in the end this books becomes off as nothing more than an average mystery thriller. Last Man Standing is a much better novel, and fans of that book may be disappointed with this effort. However, devoted Baldacci fans may nevertheless find this an exciting read.
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Summary: Disapointing!
Review: As a fan of David Baldacci, I looked forward to this book after ordering it from Amazon. The premise was fine, but there was no real character development, there was at least one embarrassing lapse in logic (spoiler warning: when the agents suspected Jorst had hidden the gun, they never thought it through with regard to the two women who were killed), and the end was way, way too far-fetched. Like another reviewer said, the villain was an impossible cartoon, and worse, his motivation for doing all that he did was just lame. I won't even be lending this book to anybody.
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Summary: Who do you trust?
Review: I have not read many books...yet, but I totally enjoyed
"Split Second". It first started out with immediate action. Then the paced slowed a bit building up a plot of deception and mystery. I liked how the two separate stories joined together keeping me on edge. I was hooked by the last third of the book. I would recommend it for new readers!
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