David Baldacci
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 720 pages Rating: 4.08 | 34243 Users | 953 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Total Control |
| ISBN: | 0446604844 (ISBN13: 9780446604840) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Narration In Favor Of Books Total Control
Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust.Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He is about to disappear - leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an aircrash investigation team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on suddenly fell from the sky, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all.
From Seattle to Washington, D.C., from New Orleans to Maine, the hunt for Jason Archer follows a trail as complex as the world he lived and worked in - a world of enormously powerful computers, a multimillion-dollar takeover deal, titanic financial standoffs, artificial intelligence, and the Internet. With brilliant minds colliding, ruthless men waging battles of intimidation, rainmakers going toe-to-toe with killers, and security specialists making a fortune trying to plug the holes, the startling truth behind Jason Archer's disappearance explodes into a sinister plot with the murder of the country's single most powerful individual. And soon Archer's wife, Sidney, aided by the relentless and sharp-eyed FBI agent Lee Sawyer, will plunge straight into the violence that is leaving behind a trail of dead bodies and shocking, exposed secrets...
Describe Of Books Total Control
| Title | : | Total Control |
| Author | : | David Baldacci |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 720 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 1997 by Vision (first published January 1st 1997) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Fiction. Mystery |
Rating Of Books Total Control
Ratings: 4.08 From 34243 Users | 953 ReviewsWrite-Up Of Books Total Control
Thriller - Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He is about toI don't care if the plot lines were far-fetched, it was a page turner for me until the end. Escapism reading, which is what I needed right now. Many characters and twists & turns kept one guessing about who were the bad guys
This is my one and only review of a recently behind the curtain reading of this WAY overrated pop suspense writer. I thought the characters were incredibly shallow; one dimensional, and not one elicited any empathy and/or sympathy on my part. Fine, it's a successful lawyer mom and a successful company executive dad who finds himself involved is some nefarious secretive hush hush fiasco in a corporation, a cover up, and a phony death. Okay you're not holding my interest; in fact, you're boring me
The four stars are for an entertaining read but mainly its point about total control. Considering the book was written in the late 1990s it makes a valid point about technology and its risk - potential.
Sr. FBI field agent Lee Sawyer is called out to a crash site of flight 3223 bound for LA from Dulles National Airport. The passenger plane with 176 people aboard plus a flight crew of 7 takes a nose dive from 35,000 ft. shortly after takeoff, crashing in the Virginia countryside, killing everyone aboard. One of the passengers, Arthur Lieberman, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board happened to be one of those unfortunate souls on board. George Kaplan, lead investigator from the NTSB
Plots, sub plots, sub sub plots...I needed a chart to keep track of everyone and everything they were doing. Sidney managed to repeatedly kick ass though.
This was a fast paced, action packed thriller that kept my attention until the end. Actually, I thought this could have been a good movie.Sometimes, I lost track of the characters, however, there was enough places within the plot where the characters and plots are summarized and it brought me back on track again.I liked both they characters Sydney and Lee. Sydney, although vulnerable, has a very strong personality which probably comes from her legal background.Lee is an exceptional agent with an
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