Baldacci goes from strength to strrength (The Simple Truth - David Baldacci)

Member Name: LukeCroll

Product:	The Simple Truth - David Baldacci
Date:	16/09/00 (56 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to read

Disadvantages: Author not known well enough??

This is David Baldacci’s fourth novel and it has been selling just as well as the rest, following the success of the movie version of ‘Absolute Power’. His latest novel is set in America and deals with the American legal system.

Rufus Harms is in a military prison for murder, having spent 25 years there. However, a letter is found one day that sheds new light on the case. It also contains some evil secrets about some of Washington’s most powerful men.

However, Harms sees a chance to escape and takes it. Within hours, a Supreme Court clerk and two lawyers are dead, the only people that knew about the appeal that Harms was going to request. The assassins close in on the soldier and John Fiske; a criminal attorney is drawn into the web.

Can Harms save himself and bring the web of corruption and deceit crashing down?

David Baldacci is an author who goes from strength to strength. He has found his writing talent and each successive novel is excellent. I thought it would be hard for him to follow up on ‘The Winner’ but ‘The Simple Truth’ is excellent.

Rufus Harms is an interesting character and Baldacci develops his story well throughout the novel, along with massive plot twists and turns, some of which I never guessed. The relationship between Fiske and Evans is neatly worked upon, developing all the time.

The book is full of action and never really stops moving. It deserves to be another Baldacci best-seller. With ‘Absolute Power’ already turned into a film, how long can it before one of his other novels gets the same treatment?

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