Mama Bear: Sidney grabs one of her dad’s shotguns and starts threatening to shoot anyone associated with her daughter’s kidnappers.

However, his executioner Frank Hardy pumped a full clip into that guy because of the sheer carnage the guy caused.

Even Evil Has Standards: When the FBI finds the plane bomber, they find him executed.

He is however in on it, snookering Jason into getting on a flight only to have him killed. He is officially Triton’s head of corporate security, and had agreed to help Jason blow the whistle on the interest rates scam.

Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: Ex FBI agent Frank Hardy.Closet Gay: Fed Chairman Lieberman was one.Blackmail: The Federal Reserve Chairman was extorted over a secret relationship to alter interest rates to benefit Triton over its competitors and allow its CEO to enrich himself through insider trades.As Sawyer digs deeper, he too uncovers possible corporate espionage involving Sidney Archer, but then finds evidence of blackmail and a complex scheme to rig the financial markets. Sawyer also seized on the fact that Jason Archer was on that flight on false pretenses and had sent an encrypted email to his wife before he left. Meanwhile, crash investigators determine that the airliner was bombed, which brings in veteran FBI Agent Lee Sawyer. She is forced out of her job and is forced to decrypt the email and uncover the truth. However, Triton CEO Nathan Gamble counters with an explosive allegation of his own - that Jason In collusion with Sidney were stealing company secrets.

However, she receives a highly encrypted email that Jason sent her before he left on his flight, in which he alluded to a high amount of corruption in the firm they worked for, Triton Global Inc. This novel also takes place in the DC Northern Virginia area, but the focus is now more on corporate rather than political matters.Īfter an airliner crashes, killing about four hundred including tech executive Jason Archer, his young corporate attorney wife Sidney and her two year old daughter Amy struggle to put this tragedy behind them. Total Control is the follow up thriller novel from David Baldacci after the success of his debut novel Absolute Power 1996.

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