David Baldacci’s novel Absolute Power [ISBN 978 0 330 41964 2] kept me pinned to my seat for the duration (not that I made it at one session as it’s quite a weighty tome). The plot is brilliant, though much is revealed to the reader with its pacy double narrative (I like this, you can know so much more than the cops for ages) it doesn’t help you to necessarily work out what will happen.
David Baldacci’s novel Absolute Power [ISBN 978 0 330 41964 2] kept me pinned to my seat for the duration (not that I made it at one session as it’s quite a weighty tome). The plot is brilliant, though much is revealed to the reader with its pacy double narrative (I like this, you can know so much more than the cops for ages) it doesn’t help you to necessarily work out what will happen.
Set in Washington DC, it starts off with a murder which involved the US President – observed by a witness who should’nt have been there and the book follows the process of how the President tries to cover up his tracks helped by his loyal secret service bodyguards. However, the police are on his trail….
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