Description
| Product ID: | 9781529003314 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | King and Maxwell |
| Title: | Split Second |
| Authors: | Author: David Baldacci |
| Page Count: | 640 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The first heart-racing thriller in the bestselling author's King & Maxwell series . . . <p><b><i>Split Second</i> is the first in the gripping King and Maxwell series by bestselling author David Baldacci.<br></b><br>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?<br><br> 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.<br><br> 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.<br><br> 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 . . .<br><br><i>Split Second</i> is followed by <i>Hour Game, Simple Genius, First Family, The Sixth Man</i> and <i>King and Maxwell</i>.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-11-14 |
