Total Control

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Summary: An excelent book were each page leaves you in suspence
Review: I am in the process of reading the book right now and it is really good. he did an excelent job writing this book. I would like to read more of his in the future

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Summary: This book was a very good edge-of-your-seat page turner
Review: I liked ABSOLUTE POWER and that is the reason I read TOTAL CONTROL. I was not dissapointed and I hope that THE WINNER is just as good!

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Summary: disappointing
Review: did not read absolute power by author, but saw the movie (and liked it) . . . then somebody told me to read this . . . so i did--or make that, i heard the full version on audio tape . . . found it to be convoluted and long . . . had a good beginning, then fell apart.

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Summary: Excellent Suspense
Review: This is David Baldacci's best book for suspense. Absolute Power had its dull moments, but Total Control was non-stop. However, the action leaves something to be desired and seems like it belonged to an action movie.

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Summary: High concept thrillers improve with research
Review: A technical gripe from a pilot. Baldacci blows off the right wing of an airplane and describes the result: "The L800 immediately rolled left ..." Not in this solar system it wouldn't. Wings create lift, in essence pulling the plane upward. Destroy the right wing and it leaves only the left wing pulling up, rotating the plane to the RIGHT, not the left. It's like reading that someone jumped off a building and fell up into moon. I know, I know, nobody cares about such quibbles except a few pilots to whom it's like fingernails on a blackboard but it tossed me right out of my belief in the world Baldicci was creating. Just a humble plea for better research or more thorough editing.

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Summary: entertaining
Review: I loved this book. I work in the IT field and am always amazed at how wrong the authors GET information, but at the same time I love to read it. I read technical documents all day long and sometime into the night so to sit in a hot bath with a glass of wine and get lost in a story that has no real technical validity is a real treat. I just love wondering "who did it" and although I have not yet completed this story I almost don't want to finish it because I haven't read another like it in a while.
Got to go, I can hear the tub running!

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Summary: Another fantastic thriller from David Baldacci!
Review: I can't say enough good things about this book. What a page-turner! Yet another David Baldacci novel that I could not put down. The story just builds and builds, with one suspense after another. I think I held my breath the entire time I was reading it. David Baldacci has a knack for creating characters that you just can't get enough of, that you root for with all of your heart, that you are sad to let go of when the novel ends. I highly recommend reading "Absolute Power" and "The Winner", his two other books. David Baldacci has quickly become my favorite author.

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Summary: Somewhat unbelievable - even for fiction
Review: The audio book helped me survive a 13 hour road trip, but that's about all. I can't believe that Sidney Archer could have escaped from all the scrapes she got into. One or two, yes. But not repeatedly. I spent a lot of time yelling at my tape player, and that kept me from nodding off.

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Summary: Read it for the plot, not the writing
Review: I needed an action packed, low thought process book for my vacation. I read this in about a 24 hour period. The writing was very poor --- but the plot intriguing. The man has a fascination with sport utility vehicles ("...the powerful V6..."). Also, I know he did a lot of research on computers, but really --- almost everything electronic he mentioned could be done by any 13 year old today (I know, I live with one). So spare me the foreward...

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Summary: Realistic?
Review: There was too much importance with the retrieval of a single disk and password. If I were Sidney, I would have made at least ten copies of the information on the disk. It can easily be done. And the password, make copies of that too. And all of a sudden Sidney goes from wife/mother/lawyer to gun-toting action adventurer???