Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Pan Books
ISBN: 9781529019216
In this gripping thriller, David Baldacci pits a young widow against corporate villains who want her silenced at all costs. When her husband Jason apparently dies in the aircrash of a jet bound from Washington to L.A., Sidney Archer's near-perfect world implodes.
As a high-powered attorney working on the latest merger planned by Triton Global - a high-tech multinational that employed Jason on secret computer projects - she can't accept or believe that the man she loves and the father of her little daughter Amy is dead.
Sidney's faith, however, is not misplaced. Jason, who had planned to sell his company's darkest secrets in an effort to make a quick financial windfall, apparently switched planes before takeoff and is alive. But he stays incognito and unreachable for a while in Seattle. On the day of his funeral, Sidney gets a phone call from him. She keeps the secret to herself, but Lee Sawyer, the FBI agent assigned to the case, is suspicious because available evidence suggests that Jason not only sabotaged the downed aircraft but also engineered a megabuck embezzlement.
Meanwhile, Jason had encrypted his proof of Triton's misdeeds on a duplicate disk that he mailed to himself before disappearing. Eager to get a printout of the proof that could clear Jason, Sidney sets out on a roundabout journey that takes her from suburban Virginia to Manhattan and then heads north. Although Triton's corrupt CEO and his minions are on her trail, Sidney manages to elude them at almost every turn. With help from a besotted Sawyer, Sidney begins unraveling the mystery of her husband's vanishing act.
In a violent climactic confrontation on the stormy coast of Maine, both Sidney and Sawyer learn the truth about a deadly conspiracy in which Jason's fate is only a part of the bigger picture of greed and control. An absolutely thrilling book from Baldacci.