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Total Control

By: David Baldacci
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
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When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this pause-resisting New York Times best seller.

Sidney Archer has it all: 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. He is about to disappear - leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all.

©2002 David Baldacci (P)2013 Hachette

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A thriller thru n thru

I really enjoyed this book. There is extra excitement, surprise and twist at every turn. The author pays attention to detail in describing his characters’ thoughts and notions. The plot is well thought out and the ending will not disappoint.

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Total Control

Per usual David Baldacci wrote a great book. He always keep you turning pages ( or in my case) listening. I
I love his books!

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Good Reading!

Loved it! Plot kept me intrigued. Good story line Interesting characters found that i was routing for Sydney the whole a tough young woman,L
I like my women that are smart ,Beautiful and can shoot a gun.

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Great book!

I love anything by David Baldacci! This is one of Baldacci's best stand alone books.

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Wonderful!

Really enjoyed this audiobook. Totally engaged. Great story and definitely NOT predictable!I highly recommend this book.

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Another Baldacci Home Run!

I have liked David Baldacci books for decades, but some reason have not listened to one for more than 10 years. This came up in my Audible rotation of unlistened books, and I decided to listen to it.

WOW! I figured out the broad outline fairly early, but the blows just kept coming, and in the end, I was only right on the barest of threads.

I gotta remember to listen to more of his soon!

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See saw

There were places this book was almost a comedy - has the disc, no password ; then gets password loses disc; then gets disc again loses password. A bit too much and the last shoot out was read as going fast and lasted way too long. Other than than a decent whodunnit.

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Less than desirable narrator.

I had to push through the first few chapters because the narration was very distracting.

The story was unnecessarily long.

Too many characters to keep up with.

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Excellent

Just a bit too complicated so it was hard to keep all the characters accounted for. But really well read!

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Baldacci Does It Again!

My husband and I loved the storyline and the characters, especially Lee Sawyer and Sydney Archer! Suspenseful with twists and unexpected turns! It entertained us and kept us on the edge of our seats as we traveled!

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