Edited by Andrew F. Gulli and Lamia J. Gulli. S&S/Touchstone, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0737-6
Twenty-six of the best-known names in the business—including Jeffery Deaver, Faye Kellerman, Alexander McCall Smith, Kathy Reichs, Thomas H. Cook, and Lisa Scottoline—contribute chapters to this modestly entertaining "who-really-done-it." In 2000,...
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Edited by David Baldacci. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6206-7
A clever concept distinguishes this anthology sponsored by the International Thriller Writers. Each of the 11 stories pairs well-known series characters created by different authors, sometimes in adversarial but more often in collegial ways, and...
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David Baldacci, Author . Warner $26.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-446-52580-0
Last year's Wish You Well, a historical family drama set in rural Virginia, proved that Baldacci, previously known for his thrillers (particularly his debut, Absolute Power), can do much more than supply maximum suspense. His latest is another...
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David Baldacci, Author . Warner $19.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-446-52573-2
Recently, Baldacci has ventured with success beyond the thrillers that made his reputation, first in 2000 with the historical melodrama Wish You Well, then earlier this year with the SF mystery novella The Mighty Johns. Here's another stretch,...
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David Baldacci, Author . Warner $26.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-446-53089-7
"We just solved a huge, complicated mystery," says one protagonist to another in this latest novel from the bestselling author of Last Man Standing, Absolute Power, etc. And that is the problem: this story of two disgraced Secret Service...
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David Baldacci, Author . Warner $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-446-53108-5
Baldacci's last book, Split Second
, was a relatively weak offering from this bestselling author, sunk by a cartoonish villain and absurd plot. But it did introduce two of Baldacci's (Absolute Power
, etc.) most memorable characters, former...
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David Baldacci, Author . Warner $26.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-446-57738-0
Arab terrorists, nuclear threat and political perfidy drive bestselling Baldacci's latest. The Camel Club, a four-man group of Washington, D.C., misfits (their leader has taken the ironic pseudonym "Oliver Stone") gathers every week to...
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David Baldacci, Author . Warner $26.99 (438p) ISBN 978-0-446-53109-2
In bestseller Baldacci's entertaining if overly long sequel to The Camel Club
(2005), renegade CIA agent Roger Seagraves has set himself up in the business of freelance assassination and selling our country's secrets to the highest bidder....
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David Baldacci, Author . Warner $26.99 (420p) ISBN 978-0-446-58034-2
Last seen in Split Second
(2003), former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have reached a crisis in their relationship in this less than compelling Washington political thriller from bestseller Baldacci. When Maxwell instigates a
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David Baldacci, Author . Grand Central $26.99 (388p) ISBN 978-0-446-57739-7
The modern-day paladins of the Camel Club are back in their third exciting adventure (after 2006's The Collectors
). Justice-seekers Milton, Caleb, Reuben and honorary member Alex Ford, a Secret Service agent, are led by feisty Oliver Stone,...
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David Baldacci, Author . Grand Central $26.99 (406p) ISBN 978-0-446-19597-3
Usually a sophisticated plotter, bestseller Baldacci (Absolute Power
) offers a story line and villain on a par with an average James Bond film in what's billed as his first “international thriller.” Nicholas Creel, the head of the...
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David Baldacci, Author . Grand Central $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-19550-8
Near the start of bestseller Baldacci's less than compelling fourth Camel Club thriller (after Stone Cold
), former CIA assassin Oliver Stone (aka John Carr) boards a New Orleans–bound train at Washington's Union Station after...
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David Baldacci, Author . Grand Central $27.99 (452p) ISBN 978-0-446-53975-3
Plenty of intense action drives bestseller Baldacci's stellar fourth novel to feature former Secret Service agents Michelle Maxwell and Sean King (after Simple Genius
). Maxwell and King, D.C. PIs, step on the toes of everyone, including the FBI and
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David Baldacci, Author . Grand Central $27.99 (456p) ISBN 978-0-446-19551-5
This promising first in a new series from bestseller Baldacci (First Family
) introduces Beth Perry, chief of the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police, and Beth's younger sister, Mace Perry, a former police officer dubbed “the...
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David Baldacci, Author . Grand Central $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-446-56408-3
Bestseller Baldacci's sequel to The Whole Truth
(2008) lacks the creative plotting and masterful handling of suspense that marked his earlier thrillers. Evan Waller, outwardly a respectable Canadian businessman but secretly a human trafficker...
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David Baldacci, Author Warner Books Inc $32 (480p) ISBN 978-0-446-51996-0
Casting the president of the United States as a crazed villain isn't a new idea--Fletcher Knebel worked it 30 years ago, in Night of Camp David--but in this sizzler of a first novel, Baldacci, a D.C. attorney, proves that the premise still has long...
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David Baldacci, Author Warner Books Inc $32 (528p) ISBN 978-0-446-52095-9
FYI: The film version of Absolute Power, starring Clint Eastwood, will be released in February 1997.
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David Baldacci, Author Warner Books Inc $32 (513p) ISBN 978-0-446-52259-5
The title doesn't refer to Baldacci but it could, as the author of last year's not-so-hot Total Control sets a wildfire of a thriller that rivals his Absolute Power for suspense, excitement and bankability. The premise is another Baldacci...
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David Baldacci, Author Warner Books Inc $32 (470p) ISBN 978-0-446-52332-5
It's a truism that readers who like Grisham's novels often take to Baldacci's, but never has Baldacci's debt to the more veteran author been so evident as in this strong-boned thriller that features the Grishamesque premise of young lawyers who...
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David Baldacci, Author Warner Books Inc $32 (464p) ISBN 978-0-446-52577-0
Baldacci's fifth high-concept premise in as many novels (The Simple Truth; Absolute Power; etc.) propels his hard-working new thriller: a renegade CIA faction attempts to reassert the agency's primacy over the FBI by manipulating members of Congress
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David Baldacci, Author Warner Books Inc $32 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-52716-3
HBaldacci is writing what? That waspish question buzzed around publishing circles when Warner announced that the bestselling author of The Simple Truth, Absolute Power and other turbo-thrillersDan author generally esteemed more for his plots than...
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David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-446-19552-2
Baldacci's implausible fifth Camel Club novel (after Divine Justice) disappoints with cartoonish plotting and characterization. The night after the U.S. president persuades former assassin Oliver Stone (aka John Carr) to re-enter government...
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David Baldacci, Grand Central, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-446-58314-5
Legal thriller fixture Baldacci (Deliver Us from Evil) churns out a creaky, contrived family drama about Jack Armstrong, a terminally ill family man just praying to make it to Christmas. Sadness abounds, much more so when Jack's wife, Lizzie, is...
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-57310-8
At the outset of Baldacci's routine fifth thriller featuring ex–Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell (after First Family), the pair, who now work together as private investigators, fly to Maine to meet Ted Bergin, King's old law...
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4555-2120-3
At the start of bestseller Baldacci’s tense third thriller featuring CIA hit man Will Robie (after 2013’s The Hit), Earl Fontaine, a terminally ill Alabama death row prisoner, plans one last killing that will personally affect Robie and his fellow...
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4555-2119-7
In bestseller Baldacci's clever third John Puller thriller (after 2012's The Forgotten), the chief warrant officer faces his most difficult and most personal assignment yet. Puller's older brother, Robert, a former major in the USAF, is a convicted...
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4555-5982-4
This strong first in a new thriller series from bestseller Baldacci (The Escape) introduces Amos Decker, the memory man, whose unique abilities are the result of a vicious hit he suffered as a 22-year-old NFL rookie that ended his football career....
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $29 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4555-8645-5
In bestseller Baldacci’s so-so sequel to 2015’s Memory Man, the FBI persuades Amos Decker—a former professional football player, whose career-ending injury left him with some unusual abilities, including an almost perfect memory—to join a new unit...
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $29 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4555-8651-6
Bestseller Baldacci makes the implausible plausible in his riveting fourth thriller featuring U.S. Army criminal investigator John Puller (after 2014’s The Escape). Thirty years after Puller’s mother, Jackie, disappeared from Virginia’s Fort Monroe,
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David Baldacci, read by Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 13 hrs., $39.98 ISBN 978-1-60788-576- 4
Baldacci's latest novel features a new character that is sure to be a hit with longtime fans and newcomers alike: military investigator John Puller. A seasoned combat veteran, Puller journeys to rural West Virginia to investigate a brutal mass...
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David Baldacci, read by Nicola Barber. Scholastic Audiobooks, , unabridged, 13 CDs, 14 hrs., $42.99 ISBN 978-0-545-69016-4
Crime novelist Baldacci detours into middle-grade fiction with a dark and wild mixture of fantasy, science fiction, and myth. The story begins as 14-year-old Vega Jane realizes her mentor, Quentin Herms, has gone missing. Vega knows there is danger...
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David Baldacci, read by Jonathan Marosz. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 14 CDs, 17 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-1-61969-623-5
Sidney Archer is sent reeling when she learns that her husband Jason, an executive at a top technology conglomerate, was aboard a plane that went down with no survivors. Then she gets some good news: Jason didn’t make the flight. And some bad news:...
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David Baldacci, Author, Ron McLarty, Read by , read by Ron McLarty. Hachette Audio $49.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-144-4
If there is such a category as a guys' audio, The Whole Truth
fits the bill perfectly. Ron McLarty's gruff voice enhances this fast-moving thriller as he takes the listener through barrages of deadly assaults featuring gunfire, knives,...
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David Baldacci, Author, Ron McLarty, Read by , read by Ron McLarty. Hachette $39.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-548-0
Veteran character actor Ron McLarty brings a strong performance to a rather weak entry in Baldacci's political thriller series featuring ex-Secret Service agents turned private investigators, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell. When the president�
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David Baldacci, Author, Ron McLarty, Read by Hachette Audio $49.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-052-2
Baldacci may not be a literary stylist, but he really knows how to spin a yarn, and with McLarty he gets a narrator who adds emotional depth to his characters without slowing down the breathless pace of his prose. McLarty uses his distinctive,...
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David Baldacci, read by Ron McLarty
and Orlagh Cassidy. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.25 hrs., $39.98 ISBN 978-1-60788-571-9
Narrators Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy team up to bring Baldacci’s latest thriller to life in this enjoyable audio edition. Forty-year-old Will Robie is a top government assassin who for years has carried out his hits with a cool, do-the-job-don’t-
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David Baldacci, read by Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy. Hachette Audio, , unabridged, eleven CDs, 13 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-1-4789-5248-0
Baldacci’s new thriller features Will Robie and Jessica Reel, secret agents licensed to kill by the U.S. president. Their officious superior hates them, but they’re just too darned good to dismiss. The novel unfolds in a segmented but connected...
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David Baldacci, Author, Scott Brick, Read by , read by Scott Brick. Time Warner Audiobooks $39.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58621-707-5
Stage and film actor Brick, an Audie Award–winning veteran of more than 150 audiobooks, is clearly a pro at interpreting the printed word. And Baldacci's exciting new thriller, in which Secret Service agents–turned–private...
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David Baldacci, Author, Jonathan Davis, Read by , read by Jonathan Davis. Time Warner AudioBooks $49.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-083-9
If anyone can make terrorism entertaining and ironically exciting, it's thriller vet Baldacci. New York stage actor Davis helps to brighten up a bleak subject with almost perfect pitch (his female characters' voices are often disconcertingly
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David Baldacci, Author, Tim Matheson, Read by , read by Tim Matheson. Time Warner AudioBooks $22.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58621-460-9
Former globe-trotting journalist Tom Langdon, 41, boards the Capitol Limited to kill many birds with one stone: he's out to fulfill his old man's death wish, find himself, write a fluff piece for a woman's magazine and visit his voice-ove
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David Baldacci, Author, Rudy Baldacci, Illustrator , illus. by Rudy Baldacci. Little, Brown $12.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-316-15998-2
Bestselling adult novelist Baldacci (Hour Game
) limps into children's fiction with this inane tale launching the Freddy and the French Fries series. The premise has comic potential, as the author introduces the eccentric Funkhousers. Aspiring...
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David Baldacci. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-545-65220-9
Best known for his adult crime novels, Baldacci makes a detour into middle-grade with this wildly fanciful and darkly intriguing tale of a girl forced to fight for her life as she investigates the secrets of her tiny community. Fourteen-year-old...
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $29 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5387-1967-1
After a contrivance-filled opening, bestseller Baldacci’s entertaining sequel to 2019’s One Good Deed finishes strong. In 1949, WWII veteran and ex-con Aloysius Archer is headed for Bay Town, Calif., where he hopes to get a job with a PI firm, when...
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $29 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5387-1977-0
Bestseller Baldacci’s welcome third outing for PI Aloysius Archer (after 2021’s A Gambling Man) takes Archer, a decorated WWII vet who works for a detective agency in Bay Town, Calif., to Los Angeles to celebrate New Year’s Eve 1952 with actress and
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $29 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5387-1984-8
Army veteran Travis Devine, the protagonist of this disappointing thriller from bestseller Baldacci (One Good Deed), had a distinguished career serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, but he quit under mysterious circumstances to join Cowl and Comely, a...
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-538750-63-6
Baldacci (The 6:20 Man) is at his best in this standalone thriller about an ex-cop and single mother who’s drawn into a murder investigation. Mickey Gibson has found some stability after her husband divorced her while she was pregnant with their...
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6502-9
Bestseller Baldacci’s stirring latest (after Simply Lies) finds Black Vietnam veteran Jerome Washington on trial in 1968 Virginia for murdering Leslie and Anne Randolph, his married white employers and two of the most prominent citizens in fiercely...
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David Baldacci. Grand Central, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5790-1
Baldacci seamlessly blends a twisty whodunit and a propulsive action plot in his enjoyable third thriller featuring Homeland Security fixer Travis Devine (after The Edge). Devine’s work with the U.S. Office of Special Projects has put him in the...
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David Baldacci, read by Kyf Brewer and Orlagh Cassidy. Hachette Audio, , unabridged, 12 CDs, 12 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-1-4789-3003-7
The lively audio edition of book five in Baldacci’s Will Robie series finds the government’s most dependable hit man (played by Brewer) once again teamed with his love interest, the world-class sniper Jessica Reel (played by Cassidy). Their handler,
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