Hour Game (King & Maxwell) - Softcover

Baldacci, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446616494 ISBN 13: 9780446616492

Publisher: Vision, 2005

Synopsis

In the wake of a series of brutal murders in the Virginia countryside in which the killer leaves watches on the victims' bodies, investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell discover that the case may be related to one involving an aristocratic southern family, a situation that turns worse when a copycat killer enters the fray. By the author of Split Second. Reprint.

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Review:

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 Kaveney

Review:

"The action is suspenseful and relentless."-- Newark Star-Ledger

"The action is suspenseful and relentless." "Newark Star-Ledger""

"The action is suspenseful and relentless." Newark Star-Ledger"

"King and Maxwell are fictional treats, a fabulously entertaining team, and the action is hot and hard."--New York Daily News

"The action is suspenseful and relentless."--Newark Star-Ledger

"Utterly absorbing...spins in unexpected directions...There are terrific action sequences throughout and plenty of suspense...texture and depth...A snappy surprise ending will have Baldacci's many fans remembering why they love this author so much."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"HOUR GAME has the elements of a classic Baldacci thriller. His characters keep getting better and richer and the plots-while always tight and well executed-are becoming more intricate and realistic...There is no question: David Baldacci will stay on the bestseller list for a long time to come."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

About this edition

• Publisher: Vision
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0446616494
• ISBN 13: 9780446616492
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 611