David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

I listened to "The Whole Truth" by David Baldacci.

Disclaimer: The below is merely my opinion. I just listened to the book.

Categories: spies, action

Comments:

I usually like David Baldacci. This is no different.

How can you not like a story with a hero named Shaw because he grew up in a sequence of orphanages and never had any more name than that.

How can you not like a story with another hero with two Pulitzers, a drunken past and a present writing obituaries for the rich and formerly famous.

How can you not like a story with a villain so cold he discards his wives on a whim, has folks killed for any reason at all and builds Italian orphanages to boot.

Shaw is a twisted 007. He's good at everything a spy needs. He's tall and good looking. He doesn't care if he lives or dies. (Oh, and that's the 007 from the books. The one that hurts so bad he doesn't really care.)

And then he falls in love. Ill fated love it is when his fiance almost stumbles across a plan to almost start WW III for big profits. And the big man is out for revenge.

It has: lone operatives, blackmail, doomed love, drunks with a tortured past, journalists, arms dealers, trophy wives, the evil rich

What did I like: the low key hint of romance between Katie James and A. Shaw, the mindless entertainment, the suspense of how the good guys will win (not if)

What didn't I like: the bad guy was a little too omniscient, the parents should have trusted, the idea of perception management seems too close for comfort

Rating: 3 of 5, I liked it