Split Second (Windsor Selection S.) (King and Maxwell, #1)

by David Baldacci

Two Secret Service agents sworn to guard their protectees lost them in a single moment...and in this #1 New York Times bestseller, they're about to learn that the violence has just begun.

Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into thin air. Sean King knows how the younger agent feels. Eight years earlier, the hard-charging Secret Service agent allowed his attention to be diverted for a split second. And the candidate he was protecting was gunned down before his eyes. Now Michelle and Sean are about to see their destinies converge.

Drawn into a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, the two discredited agents uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making--and are a long way from over

• ISBN10: 0446614459
• ISBN13: 9780446614450
• Publish Date: 1 September 2004 (first published 30 September 2003)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Vision
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 496
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

I saw the TV series first and enjoyed it.

Sean King is distracted by something for a split second and then a presidential candidate is dead. He loses his career and his planned future and has to start again.

Michelle Maxwell is leading a detail to protect a presidential candidate when she lets him go into a room without her and he disappears, the similarity between her and Sean's cases cause her to reopen the investigation and King has to deal with his issues about it. Key witnesses start turning up dead or missing so the two of them are on a race to discover the truth. It will change their lives.

It was entertaining to be reading this while both a presidential campaign, where one of the candidates is interpreted as suggesting assassination as a solution and while the Olympics are ongoing (Maxwell is an ex-olympian), and to crown things off when Ireland were involved in rowing (and getting medals!), it made it resonate a bit more. I like the story and I find the characters entertaining and I could hear the actors in my mind as the banter started between King and Maxwell. I'm looking forward to more in this series.