Simple Genius
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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
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Publisher Description
Two ex-Secret Service agents must face a dark world of violence, codes, and spies at a secret CIA training camp in this #1 New York Times bestseller about a mystery that could destroy the nation.
★ "Compulsively readable ... Baldacci, always strong on suspense ... finds his voice here. The best entry in the series." ―Booklist
Near Washington, D.C., there are two clandestine institutions: the world's most unusual laboratory and a secret CIA training camp. Drawn to these sites by a murder, ex-Secret Service agent Sean King encounters a dark world of mathematicians, codes, and spies. His search for answers soon leads him to more shocking violence-and an autistic girl with an extraordinary genius.
Now, only by working with his partner, Michelle Maxwell, who is battling her own personal demons, can he catch a killer ... and stop a national threat.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Last seen in Split Second (2003), former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have reached a crisis in their relationship in this less than compelling Washington political thriller from bestseller Baldacci. When Maxwell instigates a fight with the most intimidating bruiser she could find at a local bar and lets herself be beaten unconscious, despite her superior fighting skills, her partner suggests she voluntarily commit herself to a psychiatric facility. While Maxwell reluctantly undergoes treatment to find the childhood roots of her death wish, King probes the suicide of a scientist found on the grounds of Virginia's Camp Peary, a mysterious CIA facility. Both mysteries are fairly run of the mill, lacking the sharp twists and expert pacing that characterize Baldacci's fiction at its best.
Customer Reviews
Interesting
I felt that the characters were intriguing and interesting. It’s scary to think that our CIA would ever do an actual operation like this, but one never knows about the Spook Factory
You better be in a comfortable chair when you start this book.
When they say,”It’s hard to put a book down”, it usually means it’s pretty good, but I could still put it down at any point. Can’t say that about this one or the prior book in the KING Maxwell series; it remained riveting
through the whole book. Baldacci has become number one in my list of excellent authors.
Good reading
As usual well written can’t wait to read another