"David Baldacci’s new thriller, “The Escape,” opens with a scene that takes readers from zero to 60 in six pages.
Two large storms converging over Kansas knock out the power to the United States Disciplinary Barracks (“America’s foremost military prison,” Baldacci writes), and soon — despite all precautions — the prison’s massive backup generator fails, too. Then, you guessed it: the automatic cell doors pop open, and the prisoners step out."