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The Winner (Paperback)

by David Baldacci (Author)
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Absolute Power. Total Control. And now The Winner: Baldacci doesn't settle for second best. Here, his heroine, who gets rich after being forced to participate in a fixed lottery, is wanted for murder.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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This deliciously entertaining thriller has all the right ingredients: suspense, a strange but brilliant villain and a woman lifted out of poverty into privilegeÐbut with a price. LuAnn Tyler is smart, beautiful, but desperately poor, working as a waitress and living with an abusive boyfriend and her greatly loved infant daughter. When a stranger offers her the chance to win millions of dollars in the national lottery, LuAnn's new life, which will ultimately lead her into danger as great as her wealth, begins. Frances Cassidy's narration is rich, sultry and powerful. Through degree of accent and inflection, she conveys the very different person LuAnn becomes, thanks to education and travel. Cassidy also perfectly captures both the streetwise Charlie (LuAnn's friend and companion) and the menacing Mr. Jackson. The suspenseful conclusion keeps the listener breathless, thanks to Baldacci's plotting and Cassidy's pacing and flawless emotional pitch. M.A.M. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award Winner. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Outrageously over the top but superbly entertaining anyway!, Dec 21 2008
By Paul Weiss (Dundas, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Winner (Mass Market Paperback)
LuAnn Tyler is quintessential Georgia "white trash" - a young, beautiful, uneducated and unmarried mother with a typical Southern drawl living in a beat-up trailer with Duane Harvey, a no-account beer-guzzling low-life drug runner! But she is sharp enough to realize that her meaningless life is a dead end and she's trying to find a way out for her daughter.

When a shadowy character known only as "Jackson" offers her the opportunity to win a $100 million jackpot in a national lottery long before the drawing takes place, she's not able to figure out how it will happen but her lack of education doesn't stop her from realizing that however it will be done is well outside of the law.

Despite her poverty, LuAnn holds onto her integrity. Although she has reached the decision to turn down Jackson's "offer", a violent encounter with Duane's "colleagues" in the drug trade turns nasty and she is forced to run from the long reach of Georgia law. The $100 million becomes an offer she can no longer refuse and with her winnings, LuAnn Tyler and her daughter become lifelong fugitives from US law and from "Jackson", the sociopathic criminal mastermind who can do anything - fix a national lottery and savagely kill anyone who stands in his way or who threatens his world wide empire.

These characters are so OVER-written as to have crossed into the realm of cartoonish caricatures - LuAnn Tyler, the brash Southern belle heroine; Jackson, the evil megalomaniac who is a master of disguise; Thomas Donovan, the super sleuth investigative reporter who doesn't know enough to recognize danger when he's knee deep in it; Matthew Riggs, the former hot shot FBI agent now in deep cover in a witness protection program; and Uncle Charlie, the retired boxer who has a soft spot in his heart for LuAnn and her daughter! But, what the heck, they are phenomenally entertaining and - darn it all - every reader is going to fall in love with LuAnn and will be on their feet cheering for her in her battle against Jackson, the FBI, the Georgia state police force and even the IRS.

And I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find out that Baldacci also wanted to make a political statement about lotteries being an irresponsible regressive form of taxation that prey upon the weak represented in their totality by LuAnn and her daughter. I think Baldacci was talking about the very story that he had his reporter Donovan attempting to chase down. You know ... he could be right!

Highly recommended!

Paul Weiss
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5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute thrill ride. One of Baldacci's best!, Jun 15 2004
This review is from: The Winner (Hardcover)
David Baldacci set the bar high for himself with his first huge hit, ABSOLUTE POWER (which later became a movie starring Clint Eastwood). He also reaches that bar with this effort, THE WINNER. Combining a plot not previously explored in popular fiction with believable characters and great writing, Baldacci produces a book worthy of a future screenplay.

The heroine, LuAnn Tyler, is a young Southern woman who receives an offer she can't refuse...an offer to win millions of dollars in a lottery that is fixed. The offer is made by a mysterious man named Jackson. As the novel progresses, Jackson develops into one of the most brilliant, calculating antagonists of recent memory. The man seems unstoppable! LuAnn's bodyguard Charlie is a constantly important character as is Matt Riggs, who is thrust into LuAnn's life by random chance.

As the novel progresses, it thrives not only on the lottery scam but also LuAnn's love for her daughter and her desire to protect her at any cost...and it plays into the hands of the reader, making you ask yourself if YOU would make the same decisions and take the same risks as she had. This added element really adds to the reading experience.

All in all, this is Baldacci's best work since Absolute Power. Hopefully, the trend will continue in his future works.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!!!, April 19 2004
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This review is from: The Winner (Mass Market Paperback)
When someone writes "The concept of the book was a little far fetched" it drives me a little CRAZY!! That's why they call it fiction; it doesn't all have to be believable! Now that I've got that off my chest, I just finished the book and I loved it!! If you like Baldacci you'll like this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Would You Give Up Everything for Millions?
Bright and beautiful, twenty-year-old LuAnn Tyler lives with her no good boyfriend and her their baby girl on the poor side of town with nowhere to go but up. Read more
Published on Mar 1 2004 by Beth Saboori

3.0 out of 5 stars Well written, but this yarn's a little hard to swallow...
This book is well-written and very suspenseful, but the plot is a bit convoluted and hard to believe at times. Read more
Published on Feb 20 2004 by vincent_anton

5.0 out of 5 stars This was a Great Book!
This was the first Baldacci book Ive read and I have to admit I loved it. I was a little unsure at first after reading some of the reviews but It turned out to be an excellent... Read more
Published on Feb 5 2004 by C Leonard

4.0 out of 5 stars Good action....too lengthy
David Baldacci is an outstanding novel of bestselling thrillers. He has a knack that will keep you on the edge of your seating, wondering what will happen next. Read more
Published on Jan 8 2004 by P. Solinger

2.0 out of 5 stars Baldacci phones this one in
For sake of argument, let's just accept the far fetched premise that the mega-evil "Jackson" can accomplish anything (such as fixing the national lottery), can find out any... Read more
Published on Jan 5 2004 by John Sloan

5.0 out of 5 stars Another WINNER for Baldacci
The reason I love the way David Baldacci writes are many and THE WINNER is another example of a great page-turner. Read more
Published on Nov 30 2003 by Lynne P. Caldwell

2.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable events and characters ruin interesting story
The idea is fascinating- what would you do if someone offered you a guaranteed chance to win 100 million and all you had to do was to keep your mouth shut? What would you do? Read more
Published on Oct 14 2003 by D. H. Richards

5.0 out of 5 stars wow!
Extemely well done! A story that takes twists and turns right up to the end-an end that left me smiling and excited to read another of Baldacci's books. Read more
Published on Jul 6 2003 by Robert W. Johnson

2.0 out of 5 stars The winner strikes out
You might think that fixing a $100 million lottery would be rather difficult, but according to The Winner's antangonist Mr. "Mysterious" Jackson it is quite easy! Read more
Published on April 22 2003 by M. Peters

4.0 out of 5 stars White Trash Meets Millions
David Baldacci is a truly gifted writer. He has that unique ability to paint a picture such that one can actually picture themselves in the trailer with LuAnn, holding our... Read more
Published on Dec 24 2002 by ufrh4

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