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Split Second is David Baldacci at the top of his well-informed game, with a real sense of what the Secret Servicemen who protect the President and presidential candidates think about the job and how it feels to fail. Sean King looked away at the wrong moment and a man died; his career ended and he has spent eight years rebuilding a life. When Michelle Maxwell makes a similar mistake, she becomes convinced that there is a link between the man she lost to kidnappers and the man Sean failed to protect--and the more she learns, the more she can prove. This is an odd couple thriller--Sean and Michelle have radically different attitudes to the job they both did well--and ingeniously put together in terms of what it tells us about the shadowy villain manipulating events and what it delays telling us about the past. It is a well-informed thriller that wears its research lightly--it has a sense of how it feels to see every large room as a potential killing ground in which you have to protect very vulnerable public men, and some charming scenes of budding romantic comedy. --Roz KaveneyRead More

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    Eight years ago, the presidential candidate, Clyde Ritter was shot while under Agent Sean King's protection. Now again, another candidate is abducted from the funeral house. The similarity between the two cases drives Michelle to re-open investigations into the Ritter case and join forces with the ex-agent King.

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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...

  • 0330411721
  • 9780330411721
  • David Baldacci
  • 2 July 2004
  • Pan
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 448
  • New edition
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