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Book Review: First Family
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April 23, 2009
By James Mitchell
First Family
by David Baldacci
Pan Macmillan R189
Kidnapping is among the most hateful of crimes, so can it ever be justified? Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are enlisted by the US First Lady to find a child snatched just hours after returning home from a birthday party at Camp David, the presidential retreat.
Sam Quarry, an elderly Southerner, lives on what is left of his family plantation.
He is no simple redneck foil to the glamour of sophisticated Washington, though, for Sam is a complex character whose motivations slowly become apparent.
Resident in the White House is a Clintonesque character whose wife has - throughout his political rise - shielded him from the consequences of his philandering. And now the harm he has caused is returning to haunt him. Sean and Michelle face their own problems, among them a family death with some terrifying possibilities, and likewise their own relationship. One of Baldacci's best. - James Mitchell
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