Book Jacket
Baldacci proves again that he is the new superstar in the thriller, firmament, a total master of plot, pacing and surprise.
She has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust.
Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He is about to disappear--leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an air-crash investigation team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on suddenly fell from the sky and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all.
From Seattle in Washington D.C., from New Orleans to Maine, the hunt for Jason Archer follows a trail as complex as the world he lived and worked in. Soon the startling truth behind Jason Archer's disappearance explodes into a sinister plot with the murder of the country's single most powerful individual. And Archer's wife, Sidney, is plunged straight into the violence that is leaving behind a trail of dead bodies and shocking, exposed secrets ...
Synopsis
Sidney Archer thought she had the perfect life - until her husband was killed in a plane crash. But is that what really happened? Sidney begins a desperate search for the truth - a truth which rests with one man, to whom lives are dispensable in his desire for total control.