David Baldacci

David Baldacci brings back Sean King and Michelle Maxwell–former Secret Service agents turned private investigators–in their most surprising, personal, and dangerous case ever… It seems at first like a simple, tragic story. Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, learns the awful news that his father, a soldier, was killed in action in Afghanistan. Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father… after his supposed death. Tyler hires Sean and Michelle to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target?

From #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci comes a moving family drama about learning to love again after heartbreak and loss. It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events.

Einst war er ihr Auftragskiller, heute riskiert Oliver Stone alles, um die finsteren Machenschaften der US-Regierung aufzudecken. Kein Wunder, dass auf allerhöchster Ebene eine gigantische Hetzjagd auf ihn angezettelt wird. Stone wird zum meistgesuchten Mann Amerikas. Um seine Freunde vom Camel Club zu schützen, taucht er in eine kleine Minenstadt, tief in den Wäldern Virginias, ab. Doch auch dort findet er keine Ruhe. Ist dieser Ort wirklich eine Zuflucht für Stone, oder eine tödliche Falle?

"We just solved a huge, complicated mystery," says one protagonist to another in this latest novel from the bestselling author of Last Man Standing, Absolute Power, etc. And that is the problem: this story of two disgraced Secret Service agents who come together to solve two campaign-trail crimes doesn't play to Baldacci's strengths, which are suspense and action (as well as strong characterizations; here's one thriller author who writes people that readers care about). The novel is primarily a mystery, with lots of talk and untangling of clues, and a less than gripping one at that.