Description

Every great thriller series has a moment of origin — the single catastrophic event that sets two people on a collision course with each other and with a truth that will define the rest of their lives. For Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, that moment is a split second. Two separate protection details. Two presidential candidates. Two agents who looked away at exactly the wrong moment. Two careers destroyed in an instant. And one conspiracy connecting both failures that neither of them knows exists yet.

Split Second — the novel that launched one of David Baldacci’s most beloved series and introduced two of the most compelling characters in contemporary thriller fiction — is now the essential starting point for every Kenyan reader who wants the complete King and Maxwell experience from the very beginning.

From the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author with over 150 million books sold worldwide.

You now stock nine David Baldacci titles — and with Split Second, you now hold the complete King and Maxwell series in reading order. Available now for only Ksh 100.

The Story:

Eight years ago, Secret Service agent Sean King was protecting a presidential candidate when, in a moment of distraction — a split second of lost focus — his protectee was assassinated. King’s career ended that day. He has spent the years since trying to build a quiet life as a lawyer in a small Virginia town, putting as much distance as possible between himself and the worst moment of his professional life.

Then Michelle Maxwell’s career ends in exactly the same way. Different candidate. Different circumstances. The same catastrophic split second of failure. And when the man she failed to protect disappears without trace — apparently kidnapped rather than killed — Maxwell finds herself drawn into an investigation that leads her directly to Sean King.

Because the two incidents are not separate. They are connected by a conspiracy so deep, so ruthlessly protected, and so long in the making that it has been operating invisibly for eight years — waiting for exactly this moment. And as King and Maxwell begin working together — two damaged professionals who understand each other’s failure in a way no one else can — they discover that the truth behind both incidents is far more dangerous than either of them imagined.

The chase is on. And the people they are chasing have had eight years to prepare.

What Makes Split Second Essential Baldacci:

The Perfect Series Origin:

Why Split Second is the ideal starting point for the King and Maxwell series — establishing the characters’ histories, their specific kinds of damage, and the professional and personal dynamic that will carry across every subsequent novel
The origin story of two characters defined by failure — why Baldacci’s decision to make his protagonists people who made catastrophic professional mistakes rather than infallible superspies produces characters that are immediately, deeply human and compelling
The specific chemistry of King and Maxwell from their very first meeting — how Baldacci establishes in a single novel the partnership dynamic that readers will invest in across the entire series
Why reading Split Second first transforms the experience of every subsequent King and Maxwell novel — the accumulated understanding of who these people are and where they came from making every new case more emotionally resonant

The Secret Service World:

The specific world of presidential protection — the training, the protocols, the culture, and the specific psychological demands of a job where a moment of lost focus is the difference between success and catastrophe
Why the Secret Service is one of thriller fiction’s most compelling professional settings — the combination of extreme competence, extreme pressure, extreme sacrifice, and the specific vulnerability of being human in an inhuman role
The guilt dimension — how Baldacci explores what it means to have failed at the highest-stakes job imaginable; the specific way that kind of failure reshapes a person’s identity, relationships, and capacity for trust
For Kenyan readers: the dynamics of executive protection and the psychology of those who dedicate their careers to placing themselves between power and danger resonate powerfully in a country with its own complex relationship between leaders and the people who protect them

The Eight-Year Conspiracy:

Why a conspiracy that has been running for eight years — patient, hidden, waiting — generates a specific kind of thriller dread that immediate, reactive conspiracies cannot produce
The specific architecture of a long-running cover-up — how Baldacci builds a mystery whose roots predate the novel’s action by nearly a decade and whose exposure requires King and Maxwell to understand not just what is happening now but what was set in motion years before
The cold case dimension — how Split Second operates simultaneously as a current thriller and a historical investigation; the two timelines creating a narrative complexity that makes the eventual connection more satisfying
The antagonists — people who have had eight years to entrench their cover story, eliminate witnesses, and prepare for exactly the investigation that King and Maxwell are now conducting

The Gold-on-Black Cover:

The stark, bold gold typography against the deep navy-black background is your most classically elegant Baldacci cover — authoritative, premium, and immediately communicating the prestige of the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author brand
The simplicity of the design — just the name, the credential, and the title — communicates absolute confidence; this is a cover that needs no imagery because the Baldacci name is the image
The bullet between “Split” and “Second” — a single cartridge dividing the title — is the most precise visual metaphor on any of your Baldacci covers; violence reduced to its simplest, most deadly form

The Complete King and Maxwell Series — Now Available at Cliffmatt:

With Split Second you now hold the complete King and Maxwell reading experience in order:

Split Second — the origin; two careers ended in the same split second
Hour Game — the serial killer thriller; a stopped watch at every crime scene
Simple Genius — the cryptography thriller; a genius murdered at a classified facility
First Family — the presidential thriller; a White House secret and a kidnapped child

Four novels. One complete series. Every dimension of what makes Sean King and Michelle Maxwell two of the most compelling characters in contemporary thriller fiction — available on one Kenyan platform, at Ksh 100 each.

Nine Baldacci Titles — The Undisputed Kenyan Thriller Destination:

Total Control. Saving Faith. The Simple Truth. Divine Justice. First Family. Hell’s Corner. Hour Game. Simple Genius. Split Second. Nine novels. Two complete series. Over three decades of the most consistently excellent thriller writing in popular fiction. Cliffmatt Books is Kenya’s home for David Baldacci — and with nine titles, that position is now unassailable.

Who This Book Is For:

Every Kenyan reader who has already discovered King and Maxwell through Hour Game, Simple Genius, or First Family and wants to go back to where it all began — the series origin that makes everything else more meaningful
New Baldacci readers who want the most satisfying possible entry point into his work — starting a beloved series at the beginning is always the most rewarding reading experience
Readers who love origin stories — the specific pleasure of meeting characters at the moment of their defining failure and watching them begin the long process of redemption and discovery
Kenyan professionals in security, law enforcement, intelligence, and executive protection who want the fictional exploration of their world rendered with Baldacci’s research depth and storytelling mastery
Anyone who wants nine hours of pure thriller reading pleasure across a complete series and a selection of the finest standalone thrillers in the genre — all at Ksh 100 each

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