Absolute power
Book review
Fiction thriler genre
Spoilers- none since everyone knows the killer in the first chapter! The book is about the chase rather than the big reveal!
Rating 5/5 for the beginning and the first half and 3/5 for the second half
This was David Baldacci’s first major novel and also made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman so you can imagine how it would have been!
It starts very well; you have a thief who carefully plans and enters into a high tech house of a billionaire to enter a secret safe which is a one way mirror with a view to the bed room!
Then the billionaire’s wife comes with her lover who is the most powerful man in the US! Things don’t go down so well in the affair so to speak and the wife is killed!
The whole scene is witnessed by the robber from the safe!
Now who would believe a two timing thief! Then it becomes a cat and mouse game between the most powerful man in the US vs first the thief then the thief’s lawyer!
After many many dead bodies and clean ups the rare but honest and relentless cop finally gets the point!
Throw in some bad and cruel secret service agents and an ambitious security chief and a very rich friend and you got an engaging first half!
Finally throw in a good and Moral lawyer (if there is such a thing!), who had everything going right for him but he was not happy! That’s when you realise that it’s fiction!
Even the ending is too movie like in my opinion!
All in all a good read and hopefully a series for me to continue!
If only the second half was as engaging! Read it to know what happens!
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