His characters are graced with “perfectly chiseled features” and “flawless skin,” and their clothing is described in dollars and cents: “She almost spilled out of her five-thousand-dollar dress.” At one point, he pauses in his high-gloss narrative to point out that the room in which a murder took place includes “six-inch crown molding.”īaldacci is never subtle, but he succeeds in building up enough suspense to keep us reading, if only to find out exactly how evil all the president’s men (and women) will turn out to be. Baldacci did not dress them up in white hats, but we have no trouble at all in telling the good guys from the bad guys, even if some of the worst malefactors in “Absolute Power” are Secret Service.Īs a writer of mystery-thrillers, Baldacci owes much more to Judith Krantz than, say, Raymond Chandler. It is available in DVD, Blu-ray, and Amazon Instant Video.“I’d call this,” deadpans one Secret Service agent at the scene of the crime, “a unique situation.”Ĭaught up in the cover-ups and setups are a handsome and highly principled defense lawyer, a sentimental police detective and the daughter of the principal suspect, who just happens to be the former girlfriend of the man who is defending her father. The movie was directed by Clint Eastwood and it stars Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, and Ed Harris. The movie is excellent, but not as powerful as the book. A movie was made and released in 1997 based on the book. The book is rather long (audiobook is more than 19 hours).
Brick is simply the best! I do not mean to detract from the McLarty-Cassidy duo who are also superb.
Like several of Baldaccis early audiobooks, Absolute Power is narrated by Scott Brick (Brick also narrated the early King & Maxwell books). Absolute Power is simply a thriller not to be missed. I listened to the audiobook in February 2010 and again recently. Absolute Power was released in hardcover early in 1996 and in audiobook format early in 2010. I own audio or printed copies copies of every book Baldacci has written.
Shaw series, the Cahills vs, Vespers series, and his stand alone novels. I love Baldacci's King & Maxwell series, the Camel Club series, The John Puller series, the Will Robie series (my favorite Baldacci series), the A.
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