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First Family

First Family

Published
2009
Language
English

Synopsis

Former Secret Service agents turned private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are pulled into the orbit of the White House in David Baldacci's First Family (2009), the fourth novel in the King & Maxwell series. When the First Lady's young niece is abducted during a family gathering at Camp David, the First Lady turns not to the vast federal apparatus meant to protect her family, but to Sean King personally — a man to whom she owes a private debt from years before.

King and Maxwell take the case quietly, working the edges of a kidnapping that officialdom would rather keep contained, and find the trail leading through the First Family's own guarded history rather than away from it. It is a novel about the distance between a public family's image and its private truths, and about a case King cannot walk away from because of who is asking.

About the author

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David Baldacci

David Baldacci is an American thriller writer born August 5, 1960, in Richmond, Virginia. He earned a B.A. in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, then practiced law in Washington, D.C. for nine years before his 1996 debut novel, Absolute Power, became an international bestseller. He has since published more than 40 novels, including the Amos Decker, Camel Club, and King and Maxwell series, and co-founded the Wish You W...