Total Control

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

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

Not great

Not bad. Little far out. Somewhat disconnected. White horse was almost late. Not realistic but ok.

Another great story

Another enjoyable on the edge of your seat story by one of the best writers I have come across! Recommend this for all readers.

Well done

Great story and well told story. There were many twists and turns to keep me interested. Well done.

Excellent plot with lots of twists and turns!

Great story with good narration. One of the better Baldacci books. I would highly recommend!

Great book

I liked the entire book. Great reader and also exciting story. David is a fantastic author

Fantastic story line

A lot of twist and turns. Another great book from David Baldacci! Would love to see more books with Lee sawyer in them.

Not like other characters

This was totally different from authors other characters. I really connected with Sydney and I really wanted to get to the end. Exciting.

Exciting Story

My wife and I both enjoy David Baldacci stories. I thought I would have read this one before but the story was unknown to me. And, it was great! Pure and simple - a great story! What was both intriguing and 'quaint' was the characters' use of telephone calling cards and tape answering machines. While listening to this it seemed incredible to me that it was "only 1995" that we still relied so heavily on land lines and telephone calling cards and tape machines. And, there was so much time taken in the story dealing with remembering telephone numbers (not actually mentioned but in there) and then running around and finding "pay phones" to use "the calling card" on. Incredible! The digital revolution has so over taken our society that to go back in time, even a decade, (a little more than less) and see how much time and energy land line communications took. And here, how much time and energy it took just to be part of the story - it was incredible! I think if the author rewrote this story - and without the land lines but with smart cell phones with apps - he'd cut 30 pages out of the story and an hour of reading.

What was also amazing to me was the thought that the author could modify this story and use smart phones but not really change anything else about the plot or theme of the book. The truly an exciting concept in the late 90's as to the internet and organizing material - what a dream by the author - remains a dream, now, nearly 15 years later. We have different 'gadgets' but the dream is still there. I wonder how long it will so remain?

Overall, this story gets an A+.

Solid story

Good story well Performed. Writing is a little sappy at times. Not Baldaccis best writing but pretty good story concept.

Best of Baldacci

I’ve read several of his books and this is one of his best. Thrilling and surprises from beginning to end. Highly recommended!