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THE WHOLE TRUTH
By David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: April 2008
Contact: Grace McQuade, 212-446-5101

What if government leaders and citizens around the world united on a crusade that was completely fabricated through the workings of the Internet and savvy public relations? This scenario is the basis of #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s first novel set overseas, THE WHOLE TRUTH, a high-stakes drama involving an imagined, but quite possible global crisis.

Nicholas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world’s largest defense contractor, the Ares Corporation. He’s retained Richard Pender to “perception manage” his company to even more riches by manipulating world conflicts. Shaw (no first name), a man with a truly unique past, travels the world reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency in order to keep the world safe—and at peace. Katie James, a journalist who will do anything to get back to the top of her profession, has just received a mysterious offer to interview the sole survivor of a recent massacre.

In this terrifying thriller with an international setting that takes readers from the United States to Amsterdam, Dublin, Edinburgh, Heidelberg, London, and Paris—a travel trajectory that Baldacci himself embarked upon while researching his novel—these characters’ lives will collide head-on as a series of events is set in motion that could change the world as we know it. An utterly spellbinding story that feels all-too-real, THE WHOLE TRUTH goes beyond anything Baldacci has written before.

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