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The Whole Truth | 
 enlarge | Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Category: Book
List Price: £17.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 12239
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 0230706002
EAN: 9780230706002
ASIN: 0230706002
Publication Date: July 4, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Many are the lawyers who have ditched the day job and had taken up an even more lucrative profession: that of writing thrillers. But of the army of hopefuls who have followed the example of John Grisham, few are as talented and inventive as David Baldacci, who (in such books as Simple Genius) has demonstrated a writing skill streets in advance of most of his career-shifting contemporaries. The Whole Truth continues his upward trajectory, and adds a new level of narrative complexity that still avoids getting in the way of sheer storytelling momentum. Wealthy arms dealer Nicholas Creel is facing his own personal credit crunch, and needs to find a way to kickstart his business. Would starting a war help? Creel would hardly be averse to that. Anna Fischer is enjoying her professorial activities, but is growing dismayed at world events. Her life is transformed when her new lover proposes marriage -- but there is a side to her boyfriend's life that may threaten all she holds dear. Journalist Katie James is casting around for a way to salvage her stalled career, when something falls into her lap -- a story with very dangerous elements. And the mysterious Shaw, operative for a clandestine intelligence organisation, wants to give it all up -- but finds that an employer wants him to tackle one final all-important job. As this very varied dramatis personae suggests, we are in the presence of an ambitious global thriller here, with a host of elements juggled to facilitate an ever-accelerating plot. Baldacci -- a writer who prefers the straight-ahead effect rather than the more nuanced touch -- is an absolute master of the blockbuster thriller, and as well as keeping the narrative on the boil, manages to delineate his cast of characters with a sure touch. The Whole Truth is Baldacci's most entertaining novel yet. --Barry Forshaw
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Fast paced: best to suspend your disbelief and enjoy the ride September 30, 2008
Julia Flyte (Seattle, WA, USA)
The Whole Truth is a thriller about the head of a weapons manufacturing company (Nicolas Creel) who hires a perception management company to plant false information about Russian atrocities, with the aim of creating a Cold War between Russia and China that will cause all the world's superpowers to increase defense spending. At the same time, we are introduced to our hero Shaw, who works for an unnamed and mysterious international law enforcement agency. Shaw's fiancee, Anna, has suspicions about the false media reports and this will eventually lead to Shaw being pulled into a vendetta against Creel.
I read The Whole Truth while on holiday recently and after a slightly slow start, I thought it made an ideal fast-paced and mindless holiday read. Yes, the plot is fairly silly, but if you decide to just go with it, it's entertaining enough. I did get irritated by the cardboard characters throughout (one of whom never gets referred to as anything but "Miss Hottie") and the romance between Shaw and Anna never feels even remotely realistic.
My husband read this book after me, devoured it in a day and rated it more highly than I did. He also had far less problem with the characters than I did and was entirely comfortable with Shaw's mysterious occupation. While it sounds sexist, I do think this is a book than men will enjoy more than women. You can decide for yourself if that means that women are more discerning or perhaps that we are more innately critical. Having said that, the way that the book ends implies that there may be a sequel and if there is, I'd read it.
 Stunning July 24, 2008
Mrs. A. Hutchison (Scotland)
David Baldacci, has done it again, this book was very difficult to put down, it had me hooked from page one, brilliantly written as usual, strong story, great character detail, I would have liked to know what happened to Shaw's mother though, and why Kate did not really have her siblings or parents to help with her addiction, this story could lead to another installment as to what happened next between these two, there is a certain chemistry between them, and surely more adventures, Highly recommneded
Interesting, if not Far feched July 18, 2008
Paul Elmes (Hertfordshire, England)
This isn't my type of book, but having read the book cover it sounded interesting.
In all, it was a pretty good book. The plot was interesting and always had you engaged, ready to find out what happened next. Unfortunatly, what happened next was always predictable.
It took a few twists and turns, which obviously keeps you turning the page, but not as much as you'd hope or expect.
I often got the feeling that rather it being a fiction story, it was more of someone telling me of something that had once happened. You rarely get a feeling of a 'real time' story. Something that is actually happening as you read it.
The characters were good and well portreyed, and you got a good idea of their personality within a few pages of their arrival. The relationsips between the certain characters was the best aspect of the book. The relationships were interesting.
Overall a pretty good book.
 Dreadful disappointment July 15, 2008
Mrs. S. Gibbons (London)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In the past Baldacci's books have been well written, exciting and the scenarios contained a sufficient element of believability to be disturbing. This is just rubbish, and rather badly written rubbish at that. It relies on several "With one bound Carruthers was free" situations, the characters are strictly cardboard cut-out, and not even consistent, and Baldacci clearly knows very little about London. By the end I was beginning to develop a good deal of sympathy for the aims of the archetypal arch-villain.
 whole truth - not good July 5, 2008
A. P. Lambert (Taunton, UK)
I love reading Baldacci - good plot, complex character development, clever twists.
I was about to fly to San Francisco and found this in Terminal 5, excellent I thought.
Unfortunately it was terrible. I can't believe Baldacci actually wrote this. Everything was so shallow. The plot was predictable, but worst of all the characters were so cheesy. It was a charicature of a Baldacci novel. I seriously wondered if I had bought a book written by someone else.
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