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Hour Game | 
 agrandir | Auteur: David Baldacci
Créateur: David Baldacci
Éditeur: Warner Vision
Prix de liste: EUR 5,98
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Évaluation moyenne des clients:  3 commentaires
Classement parmi les ventes: 9176
Média: Poche
Édition: Reprint
Pages: 624
Poids (kg): 0.7
Dimension (cm): 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0446616494
Code Décimal Dewey: 813.54
EAN: 9780446616492
ASIN: 0446616494
Date de publication: Septembre 2005
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Amazon.co.uk
In Hour Game David Baldacci finally gets around to writing a serial killer plot--and his approach to that hoary old cliche is as inventive and ingenious as one would expect. His is not the first serial killer to perform his various atrocities in quotation marks and in the style of killers dead and gone, but Baldacci's does so with considerable ingenuity and for well-plotted reasons that are not mere games-playing. He also does so in a small community which a small epidemic of sudden horrible death tears apart--Baldacci is a small 'c' conservative for whom the nightmare of crime is the way that it affronts community and family, and in this, as in other books, he makes a not unappealing case for his value system. As with the equally ingenious Split Second, his investigators here are ex-Secret Service protection squad Michelle and Sean, now working together as private eyes on a case at first peripheral to the killings--clearing the name of a handyman accus! ed of burglary. When their client and his alleged victim join the death list, it all gets very personal. Baldacci is always crisp and clever and this lives up to his usual standards.--Roz Kaveney
Amazon.com
Two disgraced former Secret Service officers team up to solve a series of copy-cat crimes in this exciting new thriller by a master of the game. Sean King was momentarily distracted when a presidential candidate he'd been guarding was assassinated a few feet from where he stood, and Michelle Maxwell left the Service under a similar cloud when she lost a "protectee" to an ingenious kidnapping scheme, events told in Baldacci's typical terse, fast-paced style in Split Second. Now partners in a private investigation firm in a small Virginia town, they're hired to investigate a burglary at the home of a wealthy local family. But even before the chief suspect in the break-in meets his death in a gruesome slaying reminiscent of a serial killer long since caught and punished, King and Maxwell get caught up in a string of other murders, each of which copies the techniques of another madman, from San Francisco's Zodiac Killer to Chicago's infamous John Wayne Gacy. While the two protagonists aren't especially complex or well-developed, the action never stops, and Baldacci's trademark pacing keeps the reader turning pages until the denouement, which unfortunately isn't quite as satisfying as the rest of the novel. --Jane Adams Amazon.com Exclusive Content Why Hour Game: An Exclusive Essay by David Baldacci
 It's hard not to notice that the majority of fictional serial killers are cut from the same mold. When David Baldacci wrote Hour Game, he went out of his way to create a murderous original. Read this Amazon.com exclusive essay to learn how and why he did it.
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Remarquable thriller ! Septembre 14, 2006
Latour07 (Paris, France)
1 sur 3 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile
Un des meilleurs thrillers du tres talentueux David Baldacci. Du grand art.
A great book ! Septembre 9, 2006
F (Lyon, France, Terre)
4 sur 4 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile
A very good story, well written.
I had more fun reading it than with most of Harlan Coben's.
Very descriptive Février 19, 2005
John Egbe (Atlanta,GA, USA)
7 sur 7 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile
Hour Game is a novel with a deep look into the mysterious world of a killer's mind, full of dark passions and morbid fear. The cold bloodedness of the killer is entirely credible. The way David Baldacci portrayed him gives us a clue as to how to figure out killers in society. Though rich, the characters in this book are predictable, dreary and mean. The plot of revolving around this psychopath is rich. Based on Sean King and the Michelle Maxwell who are determined to catch the serial killer, this page-turner will keep you on the edge of your seat to the final page. The book has enough suspense and mystery to thrill a readerYou can also read DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE.
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