First family by David Baldacci

First family by David Baldacci

Book review

Genre- Fictional thriller

Spoilers-None that will give away the story!

Rating- 4/5 chiefly for the ending!

Whenever a regular person is given a pen or a pencil to test whether it works or not, he or she will most probably write his or her name or sign his or her name! It’s the same with the mirror! If you see a mirror while walking then you will definitely see yourself even if it is a glance!

Of course there may be exceptions and they are special and different and in the same way a book or a novel is different because as you read you tend to discover something different! That’s why we read novels or watch movies to see something or read something that we have not seen or read before!

I took a long time to read this one and this was worth it since it was a roller coaster ride with revelations which come out of no where! Just when you are lead in one direction on who the culprit is, it turns out in a way you would never expect!

The story starts with a kidnapping of the daughter of woman who gets killed in the process and then the game begins! The woman’s sister is the wife of the President of USA! Hope that got your attention! Then I did wonder why go to all that trouble and not just kidnap the president’s kid! Ponder on that for a while!

Then our home grown sleuths with a myriad of problems of their own are bought in the case as Sam is kinda close to the president’s wife! Now they must race against the FBI and the secret service to solve the case and literally put everything in danger!

Add in a little death which later becomes homicide in the side and that also takes some time to get solved with the classic misdirection! This was really better than this main case!

Then they tell you the story of a man who served in the defence whose daughter gets in to big trouble for which she suffers for years and this forms the whole premise of the kidnapping and the murder and finally revenge!

Just remember that somehow David does not like the first family especially the first man!

Of course in life you may not have happy ending but this is a novel so all’s well that ends really well and I was real content with the ending for a change!

Though the novel could have been cut short of at least a hundred pages to make it short and fast paced! Time is precious and ain’t that the truth!