General Discussion
Let’s talk thrillers. I haven’t read much David Baldacci but picked up a copy of Absolute Power at a thrift shop recently because I enjoyed the movie years ago. What a premise! What would happen if you witnessed the president committing a serious crime?
The movie plot diverges significantly from the book, I think to give Clint Eastwood more to do. In the book, Baldacci does a great job of putting his protagonist in one hopeless situation after another, almost to the very end. A lot of books claim to be page-turners (I’ve used that term in my own ads) but this one truly is. I need to give Baldacci’s books a closer look.