# Split Second, book review

Category: book Nook

## Post 1 by TexasRed (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Friday, 17-Mar-2006 16:01:15

Split second by David Baldacci
Book Number:RC 56904
3 sound cassettes
Secret Service agent Sean King’s career ended with the assassination of a
presidential candidate he was guarding. Eight years later, Sean’s past
converges with agent Michelle Maxwell, protecting another politician who
gets kidnapped, and with former coworker and lover Joan Dillinger
investigating that abduction. Michelle--and more murders--convince Sean the
incidents are related. Some violence. Bestseller. 2003.
This is the first book written by David Baldacci that I've read. I am
hooked. Fast paced, full of twists and turns, not to mention a great story
and an ending I just didn't see coming. I give it a 5 out of 5.
Happy reading,
Carla/TexasRed

## Post 2 by Harp (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Friday, 17-Mar-2006 16:50:11

carla, i've read a lot of books by David Baldacci. i have enjoyed almost all of them. it's a shame though that the version of "split second" you read was only on 3 cassettes though, it sounds as though it may have been abridged. i have to agree with your assessment though, it's an excelent book. i have read just one other by him that i considered to be better but the tytle escapes me for the moment. i'll shall go and look it up though and get back to you with it.

## Post 3 by Harp (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Friday, 17-Mar-2006 17:10:37

the book i was refering too in my last post was "last man standing" which was the first ever baldacci novel i read. it was one of those books that i just couldn't leave once i started. i've dragged up a book synopsis here too so that you can decide for yourselves if it sounds any good.
Synopsis
Seven seconds. That's all it took for Web London to lose everything: his friends, his team, his reputation. Point man of the FBI's super-elite Hostage rescue
Team, Web roared into a blind alley towards a drug leader's lair, only to meet a high-tech, custom-designed ambush that killed everyone around him. Coping
with the blame-filled words of anguished widows and the suspicions of colleagues, Web tries to put his life back together. To do so, he must discover why
he was the one man who lived through the ambush - and find the only other person who came out of the alley alive...a ten-year-old boy who has since disappeared.
Acting on his instincts, Web believes he knows where the killer will strike next. Only this time, he may not survive the attack. In this extraordinary
new work, Baldacci uses his unsurpassed storytelling skills to explore the essence of survival itself, as a conspiracy of violence surrounds an FBI agent
whose fate was to be the...LAST MAN STANDING.

## Post 4 by crimson x (This site is so "educational") on Monday, 03-Apr-2006 23:19:22

graitte

## Post 5 by Siriusly Severus (The ESTJ 1w9 3w4 6w7 The Taskmaste) on Sunday, 03-Feb-2008 21:50:00

Yeah.