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Product Description
Following the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Simple Genius, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in David Baldacci's most heart-pounding thriller to date . . .
FIRST FAMILY
It began with what seemed like an ordinary children's birthday party. Friends and family gathered to celebrate. There were balloons and cake, games and gifts.
This party, however, was far from ordinary. It was held at Camp David, the presidential retreat. And it ended with a daring kidnapping . . . which immediately turned into a national security nightmare.
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell were not looking to become involved. As former Secret Service agents turned private investigators, they had no reason to be. The FBI doesn't want them interfering. But years ago, Sean King saved the First Lady's husband, then a senator, from political disaster. Now, Sean is the one person the First Lady trusts, and she presses Sean and Michelle into the desperate search to rescue the abducted child.
With Michelle still battling her own demons, and forces aligned on all sides against her and Sean, the two are pushed to the absolute limit. In the race to save an innocent victim, the line between friend and foe will become impossible to define . . . or defend.
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Customer Reviews:
• Skip This One!
01 March, 2010
Couldn't wait for this one to end. Two unrelated plots, two uninteresting main characters, and prose that lies flat on the page.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Satisfying Read Filled With Suspense And Action
13 March, 2010
This was the first Baldacci book I've read and while it may be formulaic for the genre, it's still a completely entertaining and satisfying read (no wonder why it was #1 in the airport bookstore!). Practically every chapter ends with a cliffhanger and the eccentric, colorful characters are beautifully painted and written for maxiumum enjoyment. The plot of the mystery is complicated without being convoluted and the presence of political figures whom we can so easily imagine from real life give this an extra twist.
- Amazon Customer Review
• First Family
15 March, 2010
I purchased this book for my husband. He said it was by far the best book David Baldacci has written. My husband has read every book. I also like his books.
- Amazon Customer Review
• First Family
08 March, 2010
Baldacci has written another winner. This one argues certain "Taboo" topics in a compelling and thought provoking style. I like a fiction book that also makes me think.
I just wish he could write faster and put out books quicker.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Utter Tripe
17 March, 2010
However fine a story-teller Baldacci might once have been, he has become a hack - littering his writing with left-wing platitudes and amateurish metaphors. In Baldacci's First Family, there is no thoughtful, developed discussion of any political issue by way of the story - simply a crude recitation of leftist talking points. For example:
On native Americans: "The white men had basically crapped all over the only race that could call itself indigenous in America."
On Vietnam: "And then later over Laos and Cambodia dropping bombs and killing folks because he'd been ordered to in a phase of the war that he only found out later hadn't been officially authorized."
On racism: "And his daddy would cackle as he sucked down his whiskey, in sick celebration of whatever it was he thought he was accomplishing by killing folks who didn't look like him."
On health care: "... I can pretty much guarantee you won't [live to 98]. And you've got no health insurance. Neither do I. They say the hospital has to treat everybody, but they don't say when they do."
On global warming: "The SUV idled, kicking carbon into an atmosphere already bloated with it."
On abortion: "Then they go her to have a back-alley abortion." [In 1996 mind you - 24 years after abortion was legalized by Roe v. Wade]; "Abortion was the only option. I couldn't have her go to a hospital or a real physician. Something might have come out. Her parents might have been contacted." [Strange comment in light of the fact that the woman in question was not a minor.]
On the Second Amendment: "The [weapons] cache represented several generations of the affection Quarry men held for the Second Amendment." [The Quarry family members were of course bona fide lunatics, slave-owners and abusers in earlier generations, and - horror of horrors - home-schooled.]
And Baldacci's awful metaphors and other bad writing:
"... and suits swarmed over the stricken Dutton home like ants on a carcass."
"... flesh fell off their bodies, leaving only glorified skeletons ..."
"Running away from sweat was akin to running from what made you human."
"Her past was eroding away before her eyes, like sludge off a mountaintop."
How such writing can sell at a level that achieves the New York Times bestseller list is a mystery worthy of Agatha Christie. Baldacci is trading on his past success. Save your money and time, and avoid this book.
- Amazon Customer Review
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