thriller

Baldacci once again came through with a political thriller that had me guessing to the very end.  Amazon reviews have not been very good on this title but I tend to ignore most reviews. Sean King and Michele Maxwell team up again to help King's lawyer friend, Ted Bergin, defend an alleged serial killer.  And the alleged serial killer is an ex-IRS guy who has an extraordinary gift that the government wants to exploit.  When Sean’s lawyer friend is found murdered, Sean and Michelle feel the need to solve the crime.  In so doing, however, they find themselves contending with a plethora of federal

The Inner Circle is a wonderful political thriller.  Beecher White is an archivist at the National Archives in Washington DC.  Clementine Kaye is a woman from Beecher’s past who asks him to help her find his father, a man who attempted to murder the current president’s predecessor.  Within the National Archives there is a room that only the President of the United States uses—a room that is used by the president to review classified documents.  While Beecher is giving Kaye a tour he takes her into this special room in an attempt to impress her.  By sheer accident they discover an old

Micah Dalton is a cleaner. He “cleans up” other agent’s mistakes. When his mentor supposedly commits suicide, Micah investigates. It is non-stop action and intrigue in London, Italy and the U.S.A. as Micah hunts for the killer. What is different here is that Micah has the help of the victim as a re-appearing ghost, or is it a reaction to a psychotropic drug given to him by the killer? The reader is not sure and doesn’t care. What a fun read! There is a lot of dry humor and enough angst to go around for everyone. This is David Stone’s first novel.