Total Control
Narrated by Jonathan Marosz
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
The plane hasn't finished burning before you realize nobody in this story is who they claimed to be.
- Great if you want: corporate espionage and government conspiracy with personal stakes
- Listening experience: slow-burn setup that accelerates hard into a propulsive final stretch
- Narration: Marosz delivers Baldacci's tension with steady, controlled urgency
- Skip if: nearly 17 hours feels long for a single conspiracy arc
About This Audiobook
When Jason Archer, a technology executive, fails to return home one night and his wife Sidney learns that his plane has gone down, her grief quickly turns into suspicion as the investigation reveals that Jason's life was full of secrets she never knew. A financial conspiracy of staggering scale lies behind the crash, and Sidney, along with an FBI agent and a reporter, begins pulling on threads that lead toward the heart of the American technology industry. David Baldacci's debut thriller is a large-scale, propulsive story about the price of ambition and the danger of the secrets we keep from those closest to us.
Jonathan Marosz handles the multiple-perspective structure with clarity, giving Sidney's arc its proper weight as the emotional center of the novel. The corporate thriller elements, dense with financial detail, come across accessibly in Marosz's delivery. At just under seventeen hours, this is an ambitious debut that showcases the scope and plotting instincts that would define Baldacci's long career.
