The Whole Truth | 
 enlarge | Author: David Baldacci
Creator: Ron Mclarty
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 324045
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.3 x 1.7
ISBN: 1600241433
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781600241437
ASIN: 1600241433
Publication Date: April 22, 2008
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Product Description
"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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 Baldacci does it again July 5, 2008
I always enjoy reading Baldacci as I find it very hard to put the book down. I say to myself, I will close with the next chapter and then go to bed, but I find myself keeping right on reading until the wee hours of the morning.
The Best David Baldacci Since Absolute Power July 5, 2008
David Baldacci's fast plots and intriguing story lines have made him a favorite author of my friends. I've enjoyed his novels - but this one stepped outside the usual "good, quick read" and captured the same sense of innovation and excitement I experienced when reading his first novel, Aboslute Power. The Whole Truth is very relevant to our instant information age, with spin doctors manipulating perception and blogs carrying news to us faster than old fashioned print media. A very topical and frightening thriller.
David's finest work July 3, 2008
This book gets several five stars ratings though I have to only give it four stars in the international aspect. I never really felt like I was Dublin or London or on the Mediterranean. It gets ten stars for timing, and five stars for importance and entertainment.
It is usually hard to be highly entertaining and important at the same time. Clive Cussler is the master of entertainment but he hardly tries to educate or sound alarms. "House of War" and "The Creature from Jekyll Island" are extremely important but hardly entertaining.
This book is easily worth several hundred dollars but I can't hardly do it justice right now because the Bushbarians and the perception managers drove me to drink.
While the author laments on the fact that bloggers often don't double check facts, he overlooks the fact that the Pentagon did the same thing until Reagan gave them the desired budget. The USSR had four ICBMs during the 50's 'missile gap'. There was a missile gap alright. Kennedy went on the air encouraging Americans to dig a nuclear bomb shelter in their back yards. Administrations running with unconfirmed information is hardly new.
 OK book. July 2, 2008
The book had a good start with double plots and things being unclear where the story would run to. Very psychological. At the end action without any rest or reflection. I could recommend it for the first 3/4 of the book.
 Horrible July 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Likely one of the worst fiction books ever written. Premise, characters, sub plots simply contrived and unbelievable. I have read all of his previous works and this one is simply horrible. If it wasn't for the fact that I was on a trans-Atlantic flight with few options this book would have never been read. Much like Tom Clancy, Baldacci seems to be ridding on the crest of previous success and puts little or no work into this book.
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