Hour Game by David Baldacci
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Book Reviews of Hour Game
Book Review: the simple truth david baldacci
Summary: 5 Stars
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Summary: 5 Stars
Baldacci does it again.
A great thriller with twists and turns right to the end.
Loved it!
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Summary: 5 Stars
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Book Review: Enjoyable read.
Summary: 4 Stars
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, even though I had trouble with a couple of things. The only one I'll share is the total improbability of two bullets colliding as they travel toward each other in the dark from opposing guns at some distance apart. That one elicited a vocal "no way" from me when I read it. It was, however, worth a chuckle. One of the things I did enjoy about this book was the information about Civil War re-enactments which one of the characters was in to in a major way. I learned something from those passages.
The story opens with the killer trudging through the woods, hauling his recent kill to the spot where she will be found. He places a watch around the woman's wrist, checking to be sure it is set properly; cleans up after himself; and leaves. She's the first of many victim's in his diabolical plan. He has a list of those who are to die for their sins. He also plans to kill others to cause confusion for those who will be looking for him. This killer has no compunction about killing anyone who gets in his way, no manner how minutely they do so. But is he the only killer in the small, rural community of Wrightsburg, Virginia? Or did a copycat killer murder two of the victims?
There's some high drama in Hour Game, including an attempt to take out investigators, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell by killer SUV, and a high-powered boat trip during a fierce storm in another attempt to kill Sean. There are so many characters in Hour Game that I kept paper and pencil handy to write down their names down when they first appeared in the book. This helped a great deal as the story progressed. First, there's the killer and, then, investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, police chief Todd Williams, and FBI agent Chip Bailey (so-called friend of the Bailey family), along with medical examiner Sylvia Diaz and the Battle's lawyer Harry Carrick. After that, there's the extremely wealthy and horribly dysfunctional Battle family. Patriarch Bobby Battle is in a coma in hospital after a stroke; Remmy (Remington) Battle, Bobby's long-suffering, yet powerful, wife is feared by all; their son Eddie Battle and wife Dorothea are both pretty screwy; and Savannah Battle is their very lost, twenty-something daughter. Oh, and then there's Mason, the butler. Other characters included Junior Deaver and his wife, Lulu Oxley, their children, and her mother, Priscilla. One character, long dead, but important to the story is Eddie's dead twin brother, Bobby, Jr. Throw in smarmy Kyle Montgomery, person-of-questionable-character, Roger Canney (father of murdered teenager Steve Canney), and stable girl, Sally Wainwright and you've got the main cast.
The killings in this story are gory and full of hate. The perpetrator of these crimes is a major sicko and not worthy of any sympathy. I was a little disappointed that Sean King, ex-lawyer and Secret Service agent turned investigator extraordinaire, gave him some. However, the most frightening chapter in this book (I'd like to think David Baldacci wrote it to warn all of us to be more circumspect) was Chapter 8, when the killer drives his little pale blue VW to a local, upscale shopping mall parking lot and picks out a couple innocent people as future victims. They way he was able to get information about them was terrifying!
Carolyn Rowe Hill
Book Review: Mystery Novel
Summary: 4 Stars
Hour Game, by David Baldacci is as interesting as the synopsis on the cover. The novel begins with the dumping of a body in the middle of a storm, who is discovered one morning. As the plot thickens more mysterious murders appear with nothing in common between the victims, except that they all have a watch stopped at a certain time, and an abstract finding from other serial killers before. The two main characters Sean King and Michael Maxwell who are ex-secret service, become deceive partners. They are hired to solve a robbery from a very wealthy family shortly discover that the two cases weave together. However the plot can get confusing at times, everything concludes to make sense. Baldacci puts the reader into the murders head, to understand his motives-an interesting factor to the novel. This was a good book, as well as interesting.