Split Second: King and Maxwell, Book 1

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. When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him his career and presidential candidate Clyde Ritter his life. Meanwhile, high-ranking members of the legal system and key witnesses from both cases are going missing. Split Second is followed by Hour Game, Simple Genius, First Family, The Sixth Man and King and Maxwell.. 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. The similarity between the two cases drives Michelle to reopen 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. Split Second is the first in t

Two of my favorite fictional detectives Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are among my favorite fictional detectives and in "Split Second" author David Baldacci spins a tale about how they first met and, eventually, became partners with their own agency.It's an interesting story; one that details how a momentary distraction caused King to look away at the precise moment that an assassin shot the presidential candidate he was supposed to be protecting when he was a Secret Service agent. It also explains how Maxwell wound up suspended eight years later when a candidate she was. Michael Sholders said Entertaining Intrique Mixed With Interesting Characters.. **** For pure entertainment and reading pleasure, this was great. It took two different incidents spread apart by 8 years involving Secret Service members who lost their protectee, and placed these two events together in a thrilling adventure that ended up joining the two ex -Secret Service agents into a new partnership of King and Maxwell, Private Investigators. These two ex-agents are good, and they have great chemistry between them. They complement each other’s talents, brains, and energies, and will make for some great sto. A bit too much of a soap opera in the end This was my first read of a David Baldacci book. I don’t know if I’ll be back.I liked it through the first half. I liked the premise of two Secret Service agents, each professionally disgraced by an attack on the presidential candidate they were respectively guarding, drawn to each other to dig deeper into the crimes, which show links despite the years between them.In the more recent case, candidate John Bruno has been kidnapped while agent Michelle Maxwell headed up his protective case. In one eight years earlier, agent