Hour Game (2004) (edit title/settings)

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• Sean King: Former Secret Service Agent turned PI, partners with Maxwell.
• Michelle Maxwell: Former Secret Service Agent turned PI, partners with King.
• Remi Battle: The matriarch of a well-known Southern family who fights to keep her family's secrets hidden during the investigation of a burglary in their home.
• Savannah Battle: The vixen daughter of the Battle family has some demons of her own.
• Eddie Battle: The son of Bobby & Remi Battle.
• Junior Deaver: Handyman who is accused of stealing from the Battles.
• Sylvia: The local medical examiner is put to the test when bodies start piling up in this normally serene Virginia town.

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• “The body speaks to us after death. Todd, but the longer you wait, the softer the voice becomes.”

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• “A man’s greatest virtue is the courage of one against all. When it seems darkest, then there shall be light, if only from the pulse of one beating heart,”

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• Over the boy’s body he said, “I’m sorry. You’re not personally guilty, but you were part of the original sin. You didn’t die in vain. You righted a long-overdue wrong. Take comfort in that.”

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• Serial murderer Theodore “Ted” Bundy had also favored VW Bugs in killing sprees that took him from coast to coast before he was executed.

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• “By now, you find the girl. She’s all cut up, but that ain’t me. Cut her up looking for clues. Ain’t none. Trust me. The watch don’t lie. She was numero uno. But more numbers to come. Lots of ’em. One more thing. I ain’t, repeat, ain’t the Zodiac. Or his second or third or fourth coming. I am me. It ain’t going to be that easy don’t you know. By the time I’m done you wish it be just Zodiac.”

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• “That’s the deputy medical examiner assigned to this area,” King explained. “Sylvia Diaz.”

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• “Students at Wrightsburg High School: Steve Canney and Janice Pembroke.

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• “Bobby Battle was brilliant and as tough as nails. He made his fortune through his own sweat and brains. His wife, Remmy, is as fine a lady as I know. And she’s made of steel too.

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• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To Michelle, it’s hard to believe, novel number ten and counting. I wouldn’t have wanted

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• Her ‘stage’ name was Tawny Blaze. Not real imaginative, I know. Her real name was Rhonda Tyler.”

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Preceded by Split Second, and followed by Simple Genius.

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1. David Baldacci (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PS3552.A446 H68
• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( B ) › Baldacci, David
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery