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phouweling's review against another edition
3.0
Quite nice. Definitely more enjoyable than the previous book in this series.
hayley_loves_books's review against another edition
2.0
This one took a while to read. Definitely not my favourite one in the series.
clh4631's review against another edition
2.0
This book was so boring I barely made it thru. Put in front of tough guy after tough guy situation, Sean and Michelle make snarky comments and bland dialogue. They meet with various Alphabet character covert groups and the President, who asks them for a favor, to which they reply that they’ll have to think about it. It’s boring and silly. And the kid asks for help finding his dad but doesn’t tell them critical information to help them. The plot doesn’t make sense and neither does the deliver. I think I’ll pass on this series.
libraryowl's review against another edition
3.0
This is your basic government type thriller. This is the sixth book of a series, but my first one read. It is not necessary to read the previous books to understand this one. King and Maxwell are former secret service agents that now are detectives. They come across a teenager running away with a gun. The detectives discover that he received a message from his father saying he was alive. His father was supposedly killed in an Afghanistan assignment gone bad. The government is convinced that the father is a rogue agent who went off with the goods. The father spends some time trying to escape Afghanistan and return to his son. There is a lot going on here. It was an enjoyable book. However, not enough to make me read any others from this series.
quinnster's review against another edition
3.0
The story was fast and exciting with very little downtime. Michelle and Sean are a great team, as usual and now I'm genuinely excited to see what happens in the next book with their newest employee!
carolloftus's review against another edition
2.0
It just really dragged too much. I got very impatient with it
reneebeaubien's review against another edition
5.0
Absolutely amazing conclusion to the series. I was emotional at the end because I did not want to leave Sean King and Michelle Maxwell behind. This series may be something I need to reread in the future.
booksuperpower's review against another edition
4.0
King and Maxwell by David Baldacci is a Grand Central Publication released in November 2013. I received a copy of this book from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
In this sixth installment of the King and Maxwell series, we start off with Sean and Michelle coping with Michelle's near death experience and the physical and emotional scars left behind. As they are about to make plans to take a vacation, they find themselves in yet another murky situation they pretty much just stumbled upon.
Tyler is a teenage boy who has just learned his father was killed in action in Afghanistan. He is left behind with a step mother that isn't the warmest person in the world. The other issue Tyler is dealing with is an email from his father sent AFTER his father was allegedly killed.
Sam, Tyler's father, accepted a mission in Afghanistan. Things didn't exactly go as planned and now Sam is being hunted by his own country.
Tyler has asked King and Maxwell for help. But, there are people that do not want them involved and make that crystal clear, not only to Sean and Michelle, but to Tyler and a few other people that became involved, including the unlikely source of Sean's seldom discussed ex-wife.
After years of reading The Camel Club series, I started reading the King and Maxwell series too. The first book in the series left me a little underwhelmed, I must admit. However, I didn't want to dismiss the series out of hand. After reading a few more King and Maxwell novels I have been thankful I stuck with it.
This plot was very detailed. Greed and revenge motivated the operation that snared Sam into a plot he patriotically accepted, that was anything but. Baldacci provided an emotional story about a strong father/son relationship and opened new doors in the relationship between Sean and Michelle, which could prove very interesting in the future.
Overall a satisfying addition to the series. This one is an A.
In this sixth installment of the King and Maxwell series, we start off with Sean and Michelle coping with Michelle's near death experience and the physical and emotional scars left behind. As they are about to make plans to take a vacation, they find themselves in yet another murky situation they pretty much just stumbled upon.
Tyler is a teenage boy who has just learned his father was killed in action in Afghanistan. He is left behind with a step mother that isn't the warmest person in the world. The other issue Tyler is dealing with is an email from his father sent AFTER his father was allegedly killed.
Sam, Tyler's father, accepted a mission in Afghanistan. Things didn't exactly go as planned and now Sam is being hunted by his own country.
Tyler has asked King and Maxwell for help. But, there are people that do not want them involved and make that crystal clear, not only to Sean and Michelle, but to Tyler and a few other people that became involved, including the unlikely source of Sean's seldom discussed ex-wife.
After years of reading The Camel Club series, I started reading the King and Maxwell series too. The first book in the series left me a little underwhelmed, I must admit. However, I didn't want to dismiss the series out of hand. After reading a few more King and Maxwell novels I have been thankful I stuck with it.
This plot was very detailed. Greed and revenge motivated the operation that snared Sam into a plot he patriotically accepted, that was anything but. Baldacci provided an emotional story about a strong father/son relationship and opened new doors in the relationship between Sean and Michelle, which could prove very interesting in the future.
Overall a satisfying addition to the series. This one is an A.
gram06's review against another edition
5.0
I really enjoyed the book. I like the characters King and Maxwell.
dmantonya's review against another edition
5.0
Everyone thinks that Sam Wingo double crossed the US out of a billion dollars in Afganistan and is dead except his son Tyler. Tyler hires Sean and Michelle to figure out who really did it and why. It keeps you guessing like many of books by David Baldacci until the very end. I really liked this one!