The Sixth Man
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell Series, Book 5
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2011
نویسنده
Orlagh Cassidyناشر
Hachette Book Groupشابک
9781609417406
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
March 14, 2011
At the outset of Baldacci's routine fifth thriller featuring exâSecret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell (after First Family), the pair, who now work together as private investigators, fly to Maine to meet Ted Bergin, King's old law professor. Bergin has hired King and Maxwell to assist in his defense of Edgar Roy, a U.S. government employee who's been indicted for murdering six people found buried on Roy's Virginia farm. Because for some reason it's a federal case, Roy is incarcerated at a Maine prison. Near their destination, the PIs stop to investigate a broken-down car on the side of the road. Inside is Bergin, who's been shot between the eyes. King and Maxwell probe deeper into the charges against Roy to find the professor's killer, with no help from Roy, who hasn't been talking since his arrest. A fast pace compensates only in part for a cartoonish villainâa venal politicianâand a familiar Washington conspiracy plot.
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. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
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