The whole truth by David Baldacci
Book review
Fictional thriller genre
No spoiler
Rating 3.5/5; like most David novels it starts with a bang, loses steam in the middle and then gears up for a delayed but great climax!
The first book in Shaw series apparently
This book was before the finale of the Camel Club series and I had to break the chronology and my rule by reading this book not in series!
There was this huge guy in Camel club and you can imagine Shaw to be the personification of him. Shaw does remind me of Reubin Rhodes, big huge hulk Of a man who works more with his muscular brain rather than actual brain!
News what we see now cannot be believed is the crux of the story! There are firms nowadays who can create news or the TRUTH! We have already picked up our sides and we have become so used to propaganda and news which fit our original belief that it does not matter what the truth is!
Now this firm tries different means in its armamentarium to create news and videos to create a conflict between the trigger happy Russians and the new emerging threat China!
Of course this was written years back and after the COVID phase every thing in the world will change! No one will forget this years for centuries to come! 2020 has been a very unforgettable year and the world has got different opinion about China. The basic viewpoint has been the same and this only acts as a fodder to the controversy starved brain!
In the middle of all this we have a crazy rich guy who feels that all this will lead to a an arms race and countries will buy weapons like crazy! This is of course after the fact that he is stinking and very powerful!
I guess the charm of being in command is so high that you can never be satisfied!
Then we have our hero Shaw who is a mix of Rambo and Ethan Hunt who is trying different missions to keep the world safe although his world and life is literally screwed!
Just when he thinks of letting it all go and settle with the love of his life Anna, he gets the biggest shock of his life and his biggest mission which quickly becomes personal and vindictive!
He is joined by a journalist Kate who is a double Pulitzer Prize winner and is starved for proper stories and somehow she gets this big scoop right into her lap and very soon she is the very centre of the whole mission!
Then you have the typical chase and bodies piling up in typical David Baldacci style and some neat misses and finally the grand climax straight out of a James Bond novel!
The novel moves at a fast pace and there is not much dull moment, though it took some time this was a breeze to finish since there was no beating around the bush and the language was simple and direct!
All in all a good start to another series but in all fairness it really is better if you finish one series and then start another!
Rest assured though, when we pick up a fiction it is understood that we don’t necessarily need the whole truth!!
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