King and Maxwell

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

David Baldacci brings back Sean King and Michelle Maxwell - former Secret Service agents turned private investigators, featured in the hit TNT TV series King & Maxwell - in their most surprising, personal, and dangerous case ever....

It seems at first like a simple, tragic story. Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, learns the awful news that his father, a soldier, was killed in action in Afghanistan. Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father...after his supposed death.

Tyler hires Sean and Michelle to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target?

Sean and Michelle soon realize that they've stumbled on to something bigger and more treacherous than anyone could have imagined. And as their hunt for the truth leads them relentlessly to the highest levels of power and to uncovering the most clandestine of secrets, Sean and Michelle are determined to help and protect Tyler - though they may pay for it with their lives.

(Book 6 of the series)

©2013 David Baldacci (P)2013 Hachette

Amother winner by Baldacci!!

The King & Maxwell series never fails to give us an exciting experience! Well written, great characters, and enough surprises to keep you on your toes :-)

Review of King and Maxwell

Loved the story but did not like the ending. It left me hanging on to something different. I hope you write one more in this series. Come on Mr Baldacci thank you for so many great stories. Onto my next book.

A++++

another great by baldacci! will definitely buy the next in the series, as well as any other series! great narration very entertaining

kept me entertained

i enjoyed the book & performance by the narrator.
Hooked on listening to find out what happens next.

Listened to all King and Maxwell books

Had listened to all the books over time, recently came across the TV (only one season) show. So have now listened to all six in order. Need at least one more with Edgar! The Edgar “in person “ on the show was perfect.

all of it

loved it all it was ever moving on til the end I recommend all of David Baldacci books!

Fun, Fast Story

King and Maxwell are back and in classic style with great new twists. I don't know if there are better book characters out there. King & Maxwell are such a great pair. They are SO well developed as characters, I feel like I really know them as people. Baldacci has developed the perfect balance of making you feel like you know them, while throwing in surprises and twists and hooks that keep you off your guard. The other balancing act that Baldacci performs perfectly is the strengths and weaknesses of both King and Maxwell. He makes them fit in a perfect and yet not-contrived way. Their banter, their complimentary characteristics, their flaws, and their partnership are all totally believable.

This story is super fast driving and dense with action. You can't space off and miss a few minutes of this story or you will certainly miss an explosion, or a great save, or a new twist leading to who-done-it. It's awesome. The ending is complex, and fun, and action-packed, and worthy of the story you have invested in as a listener.

I gave only four stars for the performance because of McLarty's voice for the boy, Tyler. It was whiny and annoying and distracting. The rest of the pieces of the performances are great.

another hit!

fifteen words every time to find a different way to say David Baldacci has another good one... more please

wish it had a different narrator

the series is great. the writing is great, but I wish the narrators could act and do better voices of the different characters.

David Baldacci - King and Maxwell, always good

I'm always drawn into these stories, regardless of how long it's been since I read the last one, The characters are like old friends, the story always keeps me reading or listening.

I like this narrator - or these, as is the case for Baldacci these days and in this book. They did a great job. I wasn't fond of the multiple voices and sound effects when Baldacci first did it and still don't know that it would work for other authors or books, but it worked in this book, or at least for me. I've heard others narrators adding a sigh or sniffle to an audio book, as though the listener could not imagine that themselves. That's insulting and slows the narrative, but the sound effects were not too much here and it worked with an action story.

Great book overall if you are a Baldacci fan, and if you have ever read one of his books I don't know how you can not be.