Occasional Book Review - "King & Maxwell" ... from Ocean City, NJ
David Baldacci is a well known and popular writer who has moved around quite a bit with his books, his characters, etc. He moves into the mystery category off and on ... and I really enjoyed one his first books, Absolute Power, his later "Camel Club" books, and most of his "King and Maxwell" ones with five others including Split Second, Hour Game, Simple Genius, First Family, and The Sixth Man.
I believe I've read all of the above, but he is one of the very few popular and regular major writers who knocks them off so quickly that I sometimes miss one along the way. That's why I said "most" when referencing the "King and Maxwell" books.
I did find King and Maxwell a very fast read, a great story, and an exciting ending. It was a Christmas present from my wife, but in over the holidays into the new year, I was only able to do some serious reading a few times. But with the start of the new year, I returned to normal knocking out the book in no time.
You almost always know what you are getting when you read a Baldacci book, and I would suggest all of them as a great way to select a few fictional books that might be of interest.
By the way, I am now starting another Christmas gift book: Sycamore Row by John Grisham, another popular novelist who goes back and follows up his first book in his varied career ... A Time To Kill which is one of my favorite Grisham novels which was also made into an excellent film.
Along with a limited reading career, Dustin A. Peters continues on as a sales and rental agent associated with Goldcoast Sotheby's International Realty in Ocean City, New Jersey. This career follows a 32-year public education one where he was a history teacher, assistant high school principal, a middle school principal, and a high school principal for 17 years.
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