JUNE 2011 - AudioFile
David Baldacci's longtime narrator of choice, Ron McLarty, teams up with Orlagh Cassidy to deliver one of Baldacci's most exciting thrillers. Truly, they are a dynamic duo as they play the roles of Sean King and Michele Maxwell, retired Secret Service agents who are employed by a lawyer to investigate the defense of an alleged serial killer. But the detectives soon learn there's much more going on than murder. The lawyer who hired them is killed, and the duo learns that there's a power struggle going on among the U.S. government’s security agencies. McLarty and Cassidy handle the story’s tense moments extraordinarily well. Cassidy gives each of the four female principal characters a distinctive voice. The sound effects and engineering are superb. The last quarter of the book is riddled with explosive moments, with a new surprise every minute. Listeners won't discern who the real villains are until the very end. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
Washington Post
"High-stakes action, shadowy government agencies, and [a] neo-Cold War backdrop . . . Baldacci pushes his plot ahead at such a blistering pace."
Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Equal parts Hitchcock and James Bond, it's the perfect literary cocktail...One of Baldacci's best."
Newsweek
"It's his eager, expansive imagination that drives his books . . . Like other thriller writers, Baldacci depends on a mixture of inventive plotting, appealing characters, luck, and consistency. Unlike others, his books rely more on characters' relationships than whiz-bang technology or procedural twists . . . What he offers is in some ways more unusual."
Library Journal - Library Journal Audio
Not much information here—all I can say is that it's another King and Maxwell book—but it's coming, and it will be big. Buy multiples.
JUNE 2011 - AudioFile
David Baldacci's longtime narrator of choice, Ron McLarty, teams up with Orlagh Cassidy to deliver one of Baldacci's most exciting thrillers. Truly, they are a dynamic duo as they play the roles of Sean King and Michele Maxwell, retired Secret Service agents who are employed by a lawyer to investigate the defense of an alleged serial killer. But the detectives soon learn there's much more going on than murder. The lawyer who hired them is killed, and the duo learns that there's a power struggle going on among the U.S. government’s security agencies. McLarty and Cassidy handle the story’s tense moments extraordinarily well. Cassidy gives each of the four female principal characters a distinctive voice. The sound effects and engineering are superb. The last quarter of the book is riddled with explosive moments, with a new surprise every minute. Listeners won't discern who the real villains are until the very end. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
