I always enjoy his writing style. Keeps my interest the whole way through. ( )

This book was incredibly good!! I have only read a few of his book but I have become a huge David Baldacci fan. The plot is way to complex to go into in a review but it has so many twists and turns it leaves most roller coasters to shame. I didn't see how it was at all possible but it actaually did all come together in the end. Also it was not a completly happy ending. I like books that don't end with everything just as it should be, because that is not usually the way they work in real life. ( )

As a lover of suspense thrillers, Total Control is a book I really wanted to like. Unfortunately, by the end I was struggling to like anything at all. The book read like a bad made-for-tv movie, complete with a sappy ending you could see clear from Chapter 1.

The writing was amateurish and clumsy. It was also amazingly overwritten - eyes blaze, chests heave, characters are stunned, awed, astounded - the word choice seemed more fitting for a graphic novel than a thriller. There was an embarrassing excess of sentimentality on the part of all the characters, with the heroine at one point weeping with love for her husband. Maybe this was meant to appeal to the female reader, but it quickly became a distraction.

The characters are one dimensional: the beautiful, brave heroine, the tough-as-nails-but-sentimental g-man, the bad, bad, bad guys with their frozen blue eyes, the cute little tyke, the nerdy computer geek - and on and on. Most annoying was Sidney Archer, who is the archetypal male fantasy: a beautiful, clever, and successful law partner in a major Washington, DC law firm - who's yearning to give it all up to be a homemaker and mother.

By the end of the book, we're supposed to believe our slender heroine is capable of special-forces commando maneuvers, and that our FBI agent can pick out minute details on a security videotape that's described as being a lot clearer than any I've ever seen. We're not asked to suspend disbelief, we're asked to buy into a completely unrealistic turn of events.

Finally, and this is hardly the author's fault, the technology which figures so prominently in the book didn't age well, and the constant talk of floppy disks, whining modems, and AOL just seems...odd. Baldacci has a great reputation as a writer, but it must be for titles other than this. ( )

Very Fun read, bit slow at first but picks up. Plot involves FBI , computer hacker, murder, software company ( )

I cant read enough of his books a present ( )