After failing as a Secret Service agent, Sean King has a new career as a small town lawyer. When he was an agent, the presidential candidate he was supposed to be protecting was assassinated because Sean was distracted for a split second.
Now another Secret Service agent, Michelle Maxwell, has dropped the ball. The man she was guarding has been kidnapped through her error.
Seeing some connection between her failure and King's, Maxwell comes to him for help in tracing the kidnapped man.
Joan Dillinger, an ex-agent, also comes to Sean for help finding the kidnapped man.
Are these two incidents related? How and why?
Only towards the end of the book is it revealed what distracted Sean so much that a killer was able to get close enough to murder the candidate. This is where the story fell apart for me. I just couldn't believe a professional agent would let himself be distracted by something so stupid. I won't say what it was he saw, but believe me it wasn't that special. I would rate this story an OK read, mainly because I found the plot somewhat hard to follow.
Review from Kirkus: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-baldacci/split-second-2/.
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