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Hour Game [Kindle Edition]

David Baldacci
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Two disgraced former Secret Service officers team up to solve a series of copy-cat crimes in this exciting new thriller by a master of the game. Sean King was momentarily distracted when a presidential candidate he'd been guarding was assassinated a few feet from where he stood, and Michelle Maxwell left the Service under a similar cloud when she lost a "protectee" to an ingenious kidnapping scheme, events told in Baldacci's typical terse, fast-paced style in Split Second. Now partners in a private investigation firm in a small Virginia town, they're hired to investigate a burglary at the home of a wealthy local family. But even before the chief suspect in the break-in meets his death in a gruesome slaying reminiscent of a serial killer long since caught and punished, King and Maxwell get caught up in a string of other murders, each of which copies the techniques of another madman, from San Francisco's Zodiac Killer to Chicago's infamous John Wayne Gacy. While the two protagonists aren't especially complex or well-developed, the action never stops, and Baldacci's trademark pacing keeps the reader turning pages until the denouement, which unfortunately isn't quite as satisfying as the rest of the novel. --Jane Adams

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Why Hour Game: An Exclusive Essay by David Baldacci

It's hard not to notice that the majority of fictional serial killers are cut from the same mold. When David Baldacci wrote Hour Game, he went out of his way to create a murderous original. Read this Amazon.com exclusive essay to learn how and why he did it.

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In Hour Game David Baldacci finally gets around to writing a serial killer plot--and his approach to that hoary old cliché is as inventive and ingenious as one would expect. His is not the first serial killer to perform his various atrocities in quotation marks and in the style of killers dead and gone, but Baldacci's does so with considerable ingenuity and for well-plotted reasons that are not mere games-playing. He also does so in a small community which a small epidemic of sudden horrible death tears apart--Baldacci is a small 'c' conservative for whom the nightmare of crime is the way that it affronts community and family, and in this, as in other books, he makes a not unappealing case for his value system. As with the equally ingenious Split Second, his investigators here are ex-Secret Service protection squad Michelle and Sean, now working together as private eyes on a case at first peripheral to the killings--clearing the name of a handyman accus! ed of burglary. When their client and his alleged victim join the death list, it all gets very personal. Baldacci is always crisp and clever and this lives up to his usual standards.--Roz Kaveney

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Great story full of secrets and suspense 6. Januar 2005
Von Ein Kunde
Format:Broschiert
``Hour Game'' by David Baldacci is his second book with the protagonists Sean King and Michelle Maxwell. And, in my opinion, the whole plot is even better than in ``Split Second''. But it is not the story itself that keeps you reading and reading. It is rather the many secrets that are enfolding the more you get involved in the story, the more you crawl deeper into this book. Deep Secrets hiding behind the surface of all of those characters Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have to confront to solve those highly complicated murders of a very intelligent and very serious killer. A killer knowing exactly what he is doing and what he has in mind.
Baldacci acomplished with this story a very sophisticated and complicated web in which all the characters are involved in some way guarding partly cruel secrets and keeping them from each other. Thus Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have the difficult task to tear apart this dense web of love, intrigues and crime to look beyond the surface. That is the only possibility they have to resolve the case and to catch the killer before he has the chance to complete his nasty work. For what the two investigators don't know is the fact, that they are already included in his terrible game of murdering!

All in all it is a very profound book with a very high-level-story and deep and well drafted charcters that make you imagine to be really there, among of all those persons, among the murders and really not far off the killer.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Very descriptive 15. Februar 2005
Von John Egbe
Format:Broschiert
Hour Game is a novel with a deep look into the mysterious world of a killer's mind, full of dark passions and morbid fear. The cold bloodedness of the killer is entirely credible. The way David Baldacci portrayed him gives us a clue as to how to figure out killers in society. Though rich, the characters in this book are predictable, dreary and mean. The plot of revolving around this psychopath is rich. Based on Sean King and the Michelle Maxwell who are determined to catch the serial killer, this page-turner will keep you on the edge of your seat to the final page. The book has enough suspense and mystery to thrill a reader

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4.0 von 5 Sternen Spannung, aber nicht ganz so gut wie der Vorgänger 28. September 2005
Format:Broschiert
Der Nachfolgeroman zu "Split Second": Die beiden Hauptcharaktere betreiben eine Sicherheitsfirma und werden in die Ermittlungen zu einer mysteriösen Serie von Ritualmorden hineingezogen.
Bei jedem der Morde stellt sich die Frage, ob und wie er mit den bisherigen Tötungen im Zusammenhang stehen könnte. Es werden Theorien geschmiedet und Spuren verfolgt, bevor es gelingt, den Verdächtigen in die Enge zu treiben.

Schade wenngleich auch spannend fand ich, daß über weite Strecken völlig offen blieb, wer als Mörder in Betracht kommt. Auch die Auflösung war etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig, weshalb ich finde, daß diese Story etwas hinter meinen Erwartungen zurückblieb.

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4.0 von 5 Sternen Taut Tale of a Serial Killer on a Rampage 3. März 2007
Von Donald Mitchell TOP 500 REZENSENT
Format:Taschenbuch
My favorite style of crime thriller is one where the criminal matches wits with the detectives and the book alternates perspectives in sharing what each is thinking. Unfortunately, many current authors are unable to carry off this style with enough tension, plot interest and interesting characters to make the story compelling. Having enjoyed Last Man Standing, I wanted to see what David Baldacci could do with this style. I was mostly pleased with the results. I hope he will write more crime thrillers of this sort.

The Hour Game features a slightly over-the-top killing spree that provides many red herrings and twists in the plot. The identity of the serial killer is well hidden until about two-thirds of the way through the book.

The private detectives are appealing. Both Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are former members of the Secret Service whose service ended with less than stellar results. They are bright, determined and counterparts in style. There's also a hint of sexual chemistry between them that makes the story more interesting -- it almost reminded me of The Avengers. They are originally dragged into the case as volunteers when the first dead body appears and are eventually deputized. In that role, they are placed in predictable and unnecessary conflict with the Feds.

The book's main weakness is that the trigger for the crimes lies in a history that is too bizarre to be credible in current times. If the current events of the story had been placed back into the 1960s or 1970s, I think it would have been easier to swallow. There are also just a few too many murders for one book. I think if the solution had been developed about 100 pages sooner I would have liked the book much better.
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5.0 von 5 Sternen a real Baldacci 10. November 2005
Von Ein Kunde
Format:Taschenbuch
When I first read that the new novel would feature King and Maxwell as the detectives, I was very sceptical. Other authors have done that, pick up the heroes of their former novels, and it turned out bad. It's a sign of not having any new ideas. In this case, though, I was mistaken. I love the new book!! Given, it has some rather unrealistic turns, but hey, it's fiction. I devoured it without once putting it down. The serial murder angle was new for Baldacci, and well done!! I am very much looking forward to his next book. I can only recommend this one to everybody looking for a gripping read and entertainment! As I can all his other books.
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pipesteni road to Hinsons home, and a yellow police tape barrier stretched across the small strip of grass in front of the home, not that many people were inclined to take a peek. Uniformed officers came and went through the front door and garage. King pulled to a stop and he and Michelle got out. Chief Williams waved to them from the front stoop. &quote;
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