Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18457 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 624 pages

Synopsis
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, he has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He is about to disappear - leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an air-crash investigation team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on suddenly fell from the sky, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all. Soon the startling truth behind Jason Archer's disappearance explodes into a sinister plot with the murder of the country's single most powerful individual. And Archer's wife, Sidney, is plunged straight into the violence that is leaving behind a trail of dead bodies and shocking, exposed secrets.

Customer Reviews

Superb Gripping!
I am enjoying this book so much I just felt I had to leave a review even though I have not yet finished it!
This is completely addictive and gripping from the first few pages - be prepared for some serious sleep deprivation because once you start this you will not be able to put it down!

Well recommended!

A Page Turner
This book was lent to me by a person who knew I loved reading Grisham. Well they were right. This is another book which is a page turner. If this is Baldacci's style, I will be reading all of his works.

In this book we watch as a typical American family is faced with the greed of a powerful corporation. You have a husband who is an executive at an technology firm. And his wife, a mother and attorney of the firm working on an important merger of two companies. One of which is the one he works for. The husband is working on making enough money so his wife can be a stay-at-home mother. Then he disapears with a cloud of alegations over his head. and his wife is left to clear his name.

This book has all the excitment you would expect in a thriller. And you will turn the pages fast, looking to see what happens next. And even though you know there is no way she could posibbly beat the odds she is up against in real life, you will stay engrossed in this story.

Poor stuff
I've read and enjoyed books by this author in the past, but this effort is just dreadful. The only purpose the book's cardboard characters seem to serve is to drag out the paper-thin plot so that Baldacci can reach the word-count specified in his contract with the publisher. I kept hoping that Mr B would lead his idiotic 'heroine' to a an unexpected but very much deserved sticky ending. No such luck.