Book description
Following their collaboration in SPLIT SECOND, ex-Secret Service agents
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership and are
investigating the robbery of some secret documents at the residence of
the incredibly wealthy Battle family. It seems like a straightforward
case of domestic burglary, but soon they begin to suspect links to
larger, more terrifying events now shaking the prosperous town of
Writghtsburg . . . The unidentified corpse of an attractive young woman
turns up in the woods; two high school kids, one shot in the back, the
other in the face, are found dead in their car; a successful lawyer is
discovered stabbed to death in her own home. A serial killer is on the
loose. The murderer kills in the manner of famous killers of the past
but takes care to leave a stopped watch at the scene of each crime -
corresponding to the victim's position on his hit list. As the killing
spree escalates it seems that the fractured Battle family are somehow
involved and Maxwell and King suddenly find themselves racing to solve
an intricate puzzle, one that is full of tantalizing clues but barren of
solid evidence, and one that is leaving even the FBI confounded. And all
the while, the body count is rising . . .
David Baldacci is the nine-time New York Times bestselling author of
Absolute Power, Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth, Saving
Faith, Wish You Well, Last Man Standing, The Christmas Train and Split
Second. He lives in his native state of Virginia.
