Hour Game
by David Baldacci
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Author: David BaldacciEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-01
ISBN: 0446616494
Number of pages: 624
Publisher: Vision
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- ISBN13: 9780446616492
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Hour Game
Book Review: The book jacket has the best fiction
Summary: 2 Stars
The book jacket is a better piece of fiction than the book: "...bestselling master storyteller David Balducci has created his most mind-blowing and satisfying thriller yet .... one of the world's favorite storytellers ..." Yes, this book is mind-blowing in the sense that beer is mind-blowing because it kills brain cells. No, wait, that analogy presumes you enjoy the beer in exchange for the brain-cell loss.
I may have lost count through lack of interest, but I think the smallish town where this story takes place supports three killers. No, make that four or five killers, if one carries this book's particular plot back a couple of decades. And three of them are in the same family! Complete nonsense.
The would-be protagonists are Michelle and Sean, who the author never really brings to life, thus who cares what happens to them? Michelle and Sean say things like "nifty" and "spiffy." The local sheriff is a re-make of the Keystone Kops. The FBI guy makes an appearance every once in awhile, but so seldom, I kept forgetting his name.
One of the silliest parts was when Sally disclosed she seduced Junior Deaver. What?! Where did *that* come from? Apparently, this was on some sort of whim that she just thought up one day. And the married father of three, who supposedly loved his stripper-club-whorehouse-manager wife dearly, succumbed almost immediately. It was so odd, I would have been equally surprised if the author had had Sally confess to being kidnapped by extraterrestials.
Incredibly, in the end, Sean King seemed to establish some sort of camaraderie with the serial killer. And then there's this "teet" thing that spilled the beans on Sylvia (the doctor and medical examiner) and her murder - what the heck? I confess I skipped a few pages toward the end because I couldn't stand the "suspense" any longer. In truth, I could no longer justify squandering any more brain cells on this ridiculous piece of work.
I'm giving it two stars instead of one because the beginning was so promising.
Summary of Hour Game
He's copying famous serial killers and the game has just begun.A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives...or who will die next.
Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man's innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic, dysfunctional family. Then a series of secrets leads the partners right into the frantic hunt that is confounding even the FBI. Now King and Maxwell are playing the Hour Game, uncovering one horrifying revelation after another and putting their lives in danger. For the closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to the most shocking surprise of all.
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 
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