Total Control - Hardcover

Baldacci, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684820757 ISBN 13: 9780684820750

Publisher: Warner Books, 1997

Synopsis

Total Control, David Baldacci, Warner Books, 1997 1st edition (Jan), 520 pages. Author's second book. Description: Book; Red boards with blue cloth spine, silver lettering to spine only. Dust jacket; Red and blue bars across a government seal, white raised and outlined lettering to cover, photo of author and three blurbs on back panel, not price clipped, dated 0197. Condition: Book; Near fine. Bright and clean boards and pages, slight loss of silver to author's first name, top and bottom of spine soft, else fine. Dust jacket; Very good. Bright and clean panels except for some glue residue over the publisher's name on the spine, top of spine creased, points rubbed.

About this title

About the Author

David Baldacci is the internationally-acclaimed author of 20 bestselling novels. With his books published in at least 45 different languages, and with over 90 million copies in print, he is one of the world's favourite storytellers. His family foundation, the Wish You Well Foundation, a non-profit organization, works to eliminate illiteracy across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia, he invites you to visit him at www.DavidBaldacci.com, and his foundation at www.WishYouWellFoundation.org, and to look into its programme to spread books across America at www.FeedingBodyandMind.com

From Kirkus Reviews

In a hugger-mugger attempt to follow up his bestselling Absolute Power (1996), Baldacci pits a young widow against corporate villains who want her silenced at all costs. When her husband Jason apparently dies in the crash of a jetliner bound from Washington to L.A., Sidney Archer's near- perfect world implodes. A high-powered attorney working on the latest merger planned by Triton Global (a high-tech multinational that employed Jason on hush-hush computer projects), she can't accept that the beloved father of her precocious little daughter Amy is dead. Sidney's subliminal faith is not misplaced. Jason, who had shopped his company's darkest secrets in an effort to make a quick financial killing, switched planes before takeoff and is alive but not well in Seattle. On the day of his funeral, Sidney hears from him via phone. She keeps her own counsel, but Lee Sawyer (an FBI agent assigned to the case) is suspicious because available evidence suggests that Jason not only sabotaged the downed aircraft but also engineered a megabuck embezzlement. Presciently, however, the missing man had encrypted his proof of Triton's misdeeds on a duplicate disk that he mailed to himself before disappearing. Eager to get a printout that could clear Jason, Sidney sets out on a roundabout odyssey that takes her from suburban Virgina to Manhattan and points north. Although Triton's corrupt CEO and his murderous, stop-at-nothing minions are on her trail, clever Sidney foils them at almost every turn. With help from a besotted Sawyer, the pistol-packin' mama also begins unraveling the mystery of her mate's vanishing act. In a violent climactic confrontation on the stormy coast of Maine, the two learn the truth about an immense conspiracy in which Jason's fate is but a sideshow. A talky, tedious tale of an unlikely heroine's desperate life on the run, longer on confusion than suspense or narrative coherence. (Main selection of the Literary Guild; $500,000 ad/promo; author tour) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Warner Books
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684820757
• ISBN 13: 9780684820750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464