Summer Book #1- Completed

I have been a David Baldacci fan for several years, but have just found the time to read this novel. If you like mystery and suspense, I am sure you will enjoy Simple Genius. It is filled with intrigue, misdirection and plenty of page-turning anticipation. I especially enjoy the way Baldacci can involve multiple plot lines in a way that remains intertwined and very easy to follow. Chapters are very short, 4-6 pages generally,which allows for the reader to easily retain the previous actions of the characters. The main characters, Michelle and Sean, are featured n several previous novels...but having read those novels is not a requirement to follow their story.


Baldacci is very good at using actual events and personal profiles to construct a story that is both believable and dare I say even probable! Of course he also adds a healthy dose of conspiracy theory to make things interesting.

MY RATING: A+ (A Must Read!)


The following is taken from davidbaldacci.com:






U.S. Release Date: April 24, 2007

A three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., two clandestine institutions face each other across a heavily guarded river. One is the world's most unusual laboratory, whose goals and funding are a mystery. The other is an elite CIA training camp shrouded in secrecy. Now a man and a woman are about to run a gauntlet between these two puzzle factories, straight into a furious struggle to exploit a potentially world-shattering discovery -- and keep some other secrets under wraps forever...

Former Secret Service agents turned private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have seen their lives splinter around them. Michelle lies unconscious in a hospital bed after a night of suicidal violence. And Sean is forced to take on a thankless investigation into the murder of a scientist just inside the CIA’s razor-wire fence near Williamsburg, Virginia.
Soon he is uncovering layer after layer of disinformation that shields a stunning world filled with elite mathematicians, physicists, war heroes, spies, and deadly field agents. Amid more murder, a seemingly autistic girl’s extraordinary genius, and a powerful breakthrough in the realm of classified codes, Sean soon learns enough to put his life at risk. Now more than ever, he needs Michelle to help him catch a killer, save an innocent life and solve a stunning mystery that threatens the very soul of the nation.

From Michelle's courageous struggle to defeat her long-buried personal demons to a centuries-old secret that surfaces in the heat of the action, Simple Genius pulses with stunning, high-intensity suspense.