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| Original Title: | The Whole Truth |
| ISBN: | 0446195979 (ISBN13: 9780446195973) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | A. Shaw #1 |
David Baldacci
Hardcover | Pages: 406 pages Rating: 4.01 | 29233 Users | 1514 Reviews
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"Matt, I need a war." So begins David Baldacci's new book--a thriller unlike any he's written before. "Matt" is Mathew Pender, of Pender Associates--a shadowy organization that specializes in managing seemingly impossible situations for its clients. Sometimes, those services extend to managing--and creating--armed conflict. When Matt Pender is asked by his client--the largest defense contractor in the world--to manipulate two nations against each other, a shocking and surprising series of events are set in motion that will possibly bring the world to the brink of World War III.* In this epic thriller with a global backdrop, David Baldacci delivers all the twists and turns, compelling characters, and can't-put-it-down pacing that readers have come to expect from this master storyteller.
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| Title | : | The Whole Truth (A. Shaw #1) |
| Author | : | David Baldacci |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 406 pages |
| Published | : | April 22nd 2008 by Grand Central Publishing |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Suspense. Crime. Mystery Thriller. Action |
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Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to manage his company to even more riches by manipulating international conflicts. But Creel may have an even grander plan in mind. Shaw, a man with no first name and a truly unique past, has a different agenda. Reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency, he travels the globe to keep it safe and at peace. Willing toDavid Baldacci is almost always a safe bet for me and this one was no exception. Its the first of a duology featuring Shaw, a man with no first name (he uses the letter A. in place of a first name) who works for an unnamed secret international intelligence agency. He begins this novel ready to retire, wanting to get out of the dangerous business and marry his successful girlfriend. However, his boss has different ideas, informing Shaw that there is really no way to leave the business short of
This starts out with a premise that seems all too possible, and pertains to a problem that I feel is way too prevalent - the power of social media to spreat fake news to overly-gullible sheeple who don't have the time or inclination to question what they read before spamming it to all their hundreds of "friends" across the world. After all, nobody would make a fake video and post it, would they? Isn't it illegal to post false news on the internet? 🙄 Unfortunately, it started going downhill from
I've been meaning to try Baldacci for a while, and now I have I can cross him off my list. The Whole Truth was a heavy handed slice of boredom. Each time a main character was introduced, Baldacci felt it necessary to give the reader that character's life story, including how amazing they were at what it was they had chosen to do. There was the impoverished orphan who grew up to be an all action hero, the beauty queen who could speak 156 different languages, the arms dealer who had come from the
I really hate it when an author wants to use a novel to make a political point but doesn't have the literary ability to make that happen without the reader feeling as though the point has been pounded home with a baseball bat.That's the case here. Baldacci is a decent spy thriller writer. He is not an "artist," though, and for him to attempt to pull off scathing political commentary via his novels is like me trying to slam dunk a basketball while wearing heels on a freshly waxed court. It ain't
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I am continuing reading my David Baldacci stack. This one is listed as the first in the A Shaw series. I may or may not have more in this series. At any rate, this is a startling story. One man, desiring even more money than he already has, attempts to return the world to a cold war status. This way, everybody will arm themselves past necessity and his arms company will profit. He claims that the world was safer back during the cold war than it is now with little rouge states and terrorists
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