Baldacci, David. First Family (Grand Central $30 Signed)

First Family the new thriller from David Baldacci (Grand Central $30 Signed)

Here is the set-up: "Plenty of intense action drives bestseller Baldacci's stellar fourth novel to feature former Secret Service agents Michelle Maxwell and Sean King (after Simple Genius). Maxwell and King, D.C. PIs, step on the toes of everyone, including the FBI and the Secret Service. They even manage to bruise the ego of First Lady Jane Cox, who hires them after her 12-year-old niece is kidnapped following a birthday party at Camp David. Baldacci excels at making the improbable believable as one obsessed man, 62-year-old Sam Quarry, takes on the best security the U.S. can muster from his Alabama redoubt." Hard to resist this Publishers Weekly review, no?

John Hart, The Last Child ($27 Signed)