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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
I don't know if I can actually count this book as read because I listened to it in my car on the way to Illinois. I fairly certain that this isn't a book I would've picked up to read myself but I like a good suspense in the car. While the plot twists and turns (nothing unpredictable however), the story remains engaging.
A good story with some decent character development. I thought it ended abruptly, but it was still fun and met the expectations I had for this kind of book.
David Baldacci has written several crime/espionage thrillers, and started a series on 2003 that features Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, a pair of whip-smart, uber-competent private contractors -- and former Secret Service agents -- who solve crimes, rescue folks and generally get paid for poking their noses into things. In Simple Genius, King sets out to investigate a murder at a private think-tank exploring a whole new kind of computing that may lead to artificial intelligence. The think-tank is located across a river from a secret CIA training base and the geniuses aren't talking. The dead man's daughter is, but she doesn't communicate well to start with and her father's death has further unsettled her, so no one knows what she's saying. Maxwell tries to deal with personal issues that have brought her to her breaking point.
Baldacci writes a serviceable thriller, but he strays out of his depth when he tries to make Maxwell's issues believable. But the action moves quickly, features a couple of unforeseen twists and gets from page one to "the end" in fine style.
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Baldacci writes a serviceable thriller, but he strays out of his depth when he tries to make Maxwell's issues believable. But the action moves quickly, features a couple of unforeseen twists and gets from page one to "the end" in fine style.
Orginal available here.
At first I didn't like the jumping off point with the main characters, but then the book turned into a fun mystery. Didn't want to put it down.
Figured out the plot after 100 pages. Still reading to make sure I got it right.
Murder and Cryptography and government secrets, plus, of course, King and Maxwell.
I liked this one a lot, it showed a different side to the characters that I liked, the plot was good and twisty without being obvious.
So poor in comparison to the first 2 books in the series that I'm not sure I can continue reading it...