Simple Genius by David Baldacci

Synopsis :

 A three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., two clandestine institutions face each other across a heavily guarded river. One is the world's most unusual laboratory, whose goals and funding are a mystery. The other is an elite CIA training camp shrouded in secrecy. Now a man and a woman are about to run a gauntlet between these two puzzle factories, straight into a furious struggle to exploit a potentially world-shattering discovery--and keep some other secrets underwraps forever... 

Former secret service agents turned private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have seen their lives splinter around them. Michelle lies unconscious ina hospital bed after a night of suicidal violence. And Sean is forced to take on a thankless investigation into the mutder of a scientist just inside the CIA's razor-wire fence near Williamsburg, Virginia. 

Soon he is uncovering layer after layer of disinformation that shields a stunning world filled with elite mathematics, physicists, war heroes, spies, and deadly field agents. Amid more murder, a seemingly autistic girl's extraordinary genius, and a powerful breakthrough in the realm of classified codes, Sean soon learns enough to put his life at risk. Now more than ever, 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 action, SIMPLE GENIUS pulses with stunning, high-intensity suspense. 

This is what I say : 

From what I read from the online review, some readers love it, some don't.  As for me, I quite borderline liking it and not liking it.  

It actually took me a long time to read Simple Genius.  I read it at a time when there's much other distraction and attraction that's more exciting than this book.   Reading novels by David Baldacci has always been quite a tricky affair for me.  There are time when I love some of what he wrote but there are time when I just don't get it.

For Simple Genius, I simply don't quite get it.  It started of quite ok but for some reason, the thrill factor didn't last throughout the book and at the end, it was simply just a matter of completing it for completing sake.

I still have a couple of titles from this author in my shelf.  I will keep them for another day when this feeling of disappointment over this book has dissipated.