Baldacci is a master at writing page-turner thrillers. This one is no exception. The main characters are Shaw who works for a shadowy government agency and Katie James who is an alcoholic journalist. I'm hoping that Baldacci turns this book into the first of a series with these two characters.

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Riveting, couldn't put it down. Best book by Balldacci that I have read in a while.

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Written in 2008, this story is amazingly timely. It shows how marketing and public relations groups can shape public opinion. It describes how "perception management" can alter or create what the public perceives as truth. It was a scary subject for me. I wish more people were skeptical of news. I was already a bit skeptical but, having read this book, I can see how we should question everything and we might never discover what the whole truth is.

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Very disturbing because the internet today could be used to create the type of events in the book.

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I'm a huge Baldacci fan, but I almost stopped reading about 100 pages in, wondering who was this writing under his name, but suddenly and somehow it grabbed me and I was once again under the spell of the master. I'm not sure what was unimpressive about those first 100 pages, but boy am I glad I persevered!! What a great story..if a little implausable physically and technically..but, that's one of the reasons we read, right? To be taken out of ourselves and the daily realism, into an alternative existence of potential reality. These two lead characters will make you want more of them by the end of the story and the action within the tale is rip-roaring and unrelenting. The use of the WWW (world wide web) to show how invasive and probing the technology is and could be is terrifying and should make us take pause. It's not far outside the realm of possibility and is probably far more advanced already than any citizen of any country realizes. Read, absorb, contemplate.

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So glad I got Book 1 of Shaw and Katie Jones first....I usually manage to get books in a series backwards:( This was a good one! Baldacci takes our worst fears and turns them into page-turning novels and this one was a real adventure.

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His writing is absolutley too unbelievable. Too fantastic.

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