Simple Genius by David Baldacci
Fiction: Mystery. Audiobook from Hachette Audio. Published in 2007. 13 hours and one minute. Read by Scott Brick. Purchased from Audible.com.
In general, I enjoy David Baldacci’s books. This one was no different. The reader did a good job and I listened to this one fairly quickly, wanting to find out how it all worked out in the end. I like his two main characters, though they are the typical perfect (as in tall and good looking/curvy and beautiful) heroes which can irritate me at times. I chose this time not to hold it against them. 
Publisher’s summary:
Former Secret Service agents turned private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have seen their lives splinter around them. Michelle lies unconscious in a hospital bed after a night of suicidal violence. And Sean is forced to take on a thankless investigation into the murder of a scientist just inside the CIA’s razor-wire fence near Williamsburg, Virginia.
Soon he is uncovering layers of disinformation that shields a stunning world of elite mathematicians, physicists, war heroes, spies, and deadly field agents. Amid murder, a seemingly autistic girl’s extraordinary genius, and a powerful breakthrough in the realm of classified codes, Sean learns enough to put his life at risk. Now, he needs Michelle, at her best, to help stop a conspiracy of traitors operating in the shadow of the White House itself.
From Michelle’s courageous struggle to defeat her long-buried personal demons to a centuries-old secret that surfaces in the heat of the action, Simple Genius pulses with stunning, high-intensity suspense. The heroes of Split Second and Hour Game are back as you’ve never seen them before.
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