Split Second may be the initial in the gripping King and Maxwell series by bestselling writer David Baldacci.

When something distracts Key Agent Sean King for a moment, it costs him his career and presidential candidate, Clyde Ritter, his life. But what stole his interest? And just why was Ritter shot?

Eight years afterwards Michelle Maxwell is on the fast track through the ranks of the trick Provider when her career is stopped brief: presidential candidate John Bruno can be abducted from a funeral house about Split Second while under her protection.

The similarity between your two instances drives Michelle to re-open investigations in to the Ritter fiasco and join forces with attractive ex-agent King. The pair are determined to get to the bottom of what occurred in those important moments.

Meanwhile, high-ranking associates of the legal system and crucial witnesses from both cases are going lacking. King is shedding friends, colleagues and customers fast and his ex-lover, Joan Dillinger, is usually playing curious video games – she wants Sean back again, but she also owes him for something .

MOMENT is accompanied by Hour Game, Simple Genius, First Family, The Sixth Man and Ruler and Maxwell.