Total Control

From Publishers Weekly released in February 1997. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446520950/sr=1-3/qid=1297133924/ref=dp_proddesc_1?ie=UTF8&n=283155&qid=1297133924&sr=1-3) Hardcover edition. From Library Journal Sidney Archer is devastated when she hears that the plane carrying her husband to Los Angeles has crashed. But her nightmare begins when she learns he'd traded identities and flown to Seattle instead. Evidence suggests that Jason Archer was selling corporate secrets to a high-tech rival. Soon Sidney herself is caught in a web of intrigue as wealthy men vie for more power and money. Fired from her law firm, pursued by hired killers eager to recover an encrypted computer disk Jason had mailed to himself, Sydney finally trusts only the FBI agent who believes her innocent. No one is immune here from high-tech snooping and violent death. Baldacci writes strictly for action, not wasting time developing characters or setting. Few books have higher heaps of dead millionaires at their conclusion. The scant literary value won't deter those who snatched up his first book, the best-selling Absolute Power (LJ 11/15/95), or keep them from standing in line to see the film version, due in February. Public libraries will need a copy or two to meet demand, especially with a major publicity blitz planned. -?Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ. Minn. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446520950/sr=1-3/qid=1297133924/ref=dp_proddesc_2?ie=UTF8&n=283155&qid=1297133924&sr=1-3) Hardcover edition. Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. 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, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game. He is about to disappear – leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all... A woman learns her husband's plane has crashed and he is dead, only to receive a call from him on the day of his funeral. It's the start of a financial thriller involving computer companies, big bucks and crooks who operate online