The Whole Truth
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4.0 • 87 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Introducing special intelligence agent Shaw, The Whole Truth by David Baldacci is a terrifying global thriller that delivers David Baldacci's classic twists and turns, unforgettable characters and can't-put-it-down drama.
'I need a war . . .'
Nicolas Creel, a super-rich arms dealer, decides that the best way to boost his business is to start a new cold war – and he won't let anything or anyone get in his way.
As international tensions rise and the superpowers line up against each other, the lives of three very different people will never be the same again. As intelligence agent Shaw, academic Anna Fischer and ambitious journalist Katie James are all drawn into Creel's games, can anything stop the world from spiralling out of control?
The Whole Truth is followed by a second Shaw and Katie James novel, Deliver Us From Evil.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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 fianc e 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.
Customer Reviews
Another Shocker from Baldacci
Not as bad as "Saving Faith"
But boring and drawn out none the less
The final chapters were more reminiscent of James Bond FFS