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| The Whole Truth
Matt, I need a war."
Richard Jansen is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, the Ares Corporation. He's retained two men, Matt Pender and Saul Bergman out of London to "perception manage" his company to even more rich...
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Richard Jansen is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, the Ares Corporation. He's retained two men, Matt Pender and Saul Bergman out of London to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating world conflicts. Shaw (no first name), a man with a truly unique past, travels the world reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency in order to keep the world safe--and at peace.
Katie James, a journalist who will do anything to get back to the top of her profession, has just received a mysterious offer to interview the sole survivor of a recent massacre. In this terrifying thriller with a global backdrop, these characters' lives will collide head-on as a series of events is set in motion that could change the world as we know it.
An utterly spellbinding story that feels all-too-real, THE WHOLE TRUTH delivers all the twists and turns, emotional drama, unforgettable characters, and can't-put-it-down pacing that Baldacci fans expect--and still goes beyond anything he's written before.
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| File Size | 760.91 KB |
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| Publisher | Grand Central Publishing
Hachette Book Group USA |
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| Publish Date | 04/21/2008 |
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| Print Pages | 416 |
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| Print ISBN | 0446195979 |
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| eBook ISBN | 0446536148 |
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| Print List Price | $ 26.99 |
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| eBook List Price | $ 18.99 |
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| eBook Store Discount | $ 5.70 |
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Usually a sophisticated plotter, bestseller Baldacci (Absolute Power) offers a story line and villain on a par with an average James Bond film in what's billed as his first "international thriller." Nicholas Creel, the head of the Ares Corporation, a huge defense contractor, hires a "perception management" firm to start a second cold war by planting fake news stories on the Internet about Russian atrocities. The propaganda campaign soon turns violent with the massacre of the members of a London think tank, the Phoenix Group, apparently by a Russian hit team. Creel hopes that the Phoenix Group's links with the Chinese government will lead to war between Russia and China as well as feed a worldwide arms race that will profit his company. A shadowy operative, A Shaw, whose fiancee perished in the London attack, allies himself with a disgraced female journalist in an effort to thwart Creel's evil plot. While some readers may find it a stretch that a resurgent Russia should so easily overshadow all other world crises, Baldacci in an author's note makes an eloquent case for the very real threat of perception management. (Apr. 22) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
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David Baldacci
David Baldacci was born in Virginia, in 1960, where he currently resides. He received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. Mr. Baldacci practiced law for nine years in Washington, D.C., as...
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