May 25, 2023

Split Second by David Baldacci (2003) Grand Central Publishing

The first of the King and Maxwell books.  They have something to be ashamed of in common.  Both have lost a presidential candidate while in the Secret Service.  King eight years previously when he was distracted during an orchestrated assassination, just enough time for the shooter to kill the man he was supposed to be protecting; a hateful man who had no chance of winning the race.  Maxwell, now, also protecting a man whom everyone hopes has no chance of winning.  Only hers is kidnapped.  And a man who was in WITSEC and worked for King’s legal office has been killed in the office with King’s gun while King was on his weekly volunteer deputy patrol.  A joint task force is formed between the U.S. Marshall’s office, the Secret Service and the FBI.  No one can trace the kidnappers.  Then more people are killed and more are kidnapped.  It’s up to King and Maxwell to solve the mystery and bring the perpetrators to justice.

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