David Baldacci

David Baldacci is the author of ten consecutive New York Times best sellers. He is a superb storyteller who has me turning the pages in a fever to learn what happens next.

The Christmas Train
Tom Langdon was a journalist who had seen it all, covered it all and written it up, but he found it didn't fill a large hole in his life. Now he's knocking around writing dreary stories for ladies magazines and touting the glories of compost and do it yourself flooring he knows he isn't fulfilled. He needs to get to California for Christmas but he has been banned from the airlines - so he boards an AmTrak train for a Christmas trip that will change his life in more ways than one.
Split Second
In 1996 Sean King was a top agent in the Secret Service until his protectee was gunned down in an out of the way hotel in an out of the way town. In 2004, Michele Maxwell was on the Secret Services fast track to the top until her protectee was kidnapped right out from under the watchful eyes of an entire contingent of Secret Service Agents. King and Maxwell soon learn that the two events are connected and they join forces to investigate. False clues and lying witness and hair raising adventure await them as does the specter of sudden death.