Simple Genius [UNABRIDGED CD] (Audiobook) This instant

Just finished reading _Simple Genius_ (2007) by David Baldacci, whose work I usually really enjoy, and I was so disappointed!
The first 4 chapters, instead of any exciting action or plot set-up, have you slogging through the vaguely undefined and improbable mental problems of one of the protagonists (a former Secret Service agent, who for some unknown reason is not sleeping with her gorgeous male partner/close friend--but this is never linked to her mental/emotional issues in any way...).
When the action finally starts, it revolves around, get this--a hidden treasure from colonial days, a German POW who escaped from a US camp during WWII, and the modern-day drug-running of top-level CIA agents gone bad, plus an autistic piano-playing math whiz--all on a little cape on the Virginia coast!
The end brings even more improbable plot twists, including (I kid you not) one of the bad CIA agents trying to kill the other protagonist by thrashing him with her prosthetic leg!!!
I got through the whole audiobook by habit and/or hope that it had to get better, but I'll think twice before picking up another David Baldacci book.Get more detail about Simple Genius [UNABRIDGED CD] (Audiobook).