David Baldacci
Author of The Camel Club
About the Author
David Baldacci was born in Richmond, Virginia on August 5, 1960. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia. He practiced law in Washington D.C. as a trial and corporate lawyer. His first novel, show more Absolute Power, was published in 1996. It won Britain's prestigious W.H. Smith's Thumping Good Read award for fiction in 1997 and was adapted as a movie starring Clint Eastwood. His other works include Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth, Saving Faith, True Blue, One Summer and End Game. He writes numerous series including King and Maxwell, Freddy and the French Fries, the Camel Club, Will Robie, Shaw and Katie James, John Puller, Vega Jane, and Amos Decker. He also published a novella entitled Office Hours and has authored five original screenplays. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by David Baldacci
[Title missing] 5 copies
David Baldacci Collection - 4 books (The Camel Club / Hour Game / Saving Faith / Split Second) (2006) 4 copies
David Baldacci Collection 4 Books Set (the simple truth, saving faith, the winner, the last man standing) (2011) 4 copies
Der Abgrund und Die Verschwörung 3 copies
Memory Man; The Target; Hell's Corner; The Whole Truth; Split Second; Hour Game (Set of 6) (2015) 3 copies
Flashback 2 copies
David Baldacci Collection - 7 Books (The Whole Truth / Simple Genius / The Collectors / Stone Cold / The Simple Truth /… (1969) 2 copies
O Jogo da Verdade (A. Shaw #1) 2 copies
About the Author 2 copies
David Baldacci Will Robie Series 4 Books Collection Set (The Target, The Hit, The Guilty, The Innocent) (2016) 2 copies
King & Maxwell (Season 1) 2 copies
David Baldacci Amos Decker Series 4 Books Collection Set (Memory Man, The Last Mile, The Fix, The Fallen) (2018) 2 copies
Evil 2 copies
David Baldacci - November 2018 2 copies
The Sixth Man r 1 copy
King and Maxwell r 1 copy
Split Second r 1 copy
The Winner r 1 copy
Hour Game r 1 copy
The Camel Club r 1 copy
Divine Justice r 1 copy
Simple Genius r 1 copy
The Last Mile r 1 copy
The Simple Truth r 1 copy
The Collectors r 1 copy
Camino Island r 1 copy
Deliver Us From Evil r 1 copy
The Whole Truth r 1 copy
Stone Cold r 1 copy
Redemmption r 1 copy
The Christmas Train r 1 copy
The Target r 1 copy
The Innocent r 1 copy
Edge r 1 copy
The Lion 1 copy
Finstere Lügen 1 copy
The Origins of Wish You Well 1 copy
Balance of Power 1 copy
Kirjavaliot - Aavikon hiekkaa, Elämä yllättää Julia-rouva, Karu totuus, Jotta toiset saisivat elää (2000) 1 copy
Simply Lies 1 copy
The Guilty r 1 copy
One Summber 1 copy
Saving Faith r 1 copy
Total Control r 1 copy
Last Man Standing r 1 copy
Absolute Power r 1 copy
The Finisher r 1 copy
Wish You Well r 1 copy
The Forgotten r 1 copy
First Family r 1 copy
memort Man r 1 copy
The Fallen r 1 copy
True Blue r 1 copy
Shall We Tell the President 1 copy
David Baldacci (Set of 6) Split Second; Hour Game; Simple Genius; 1st Family; 6th Man; King & Maxwell (2013) 1 copy
Suspense Magazine June 2014 1 copy
The Innocent Have Fallen 1 copy
Hour Gone 1 copy
The Places in Between 1 copy
As you Were 1 copy
The Camel Club series 1 copy
David Baldacci Collection Pack - 4 Books (Divine Justice / The Whole Truth / First Family / True Blue) (2011) 1 copy
David Baldacci Atlee Pine Series 4 Books Collection Set (Long Road to Mercy, A Minute to Midnight, Daylight, Mercy) (2022) 1 copy
No Man's Land r 1 copy
One Good Deed r 1 copy
Long Road to Mercy r 1 copy
The Fix r 1 copy
A Minute to Midnight r 1 copy
Walk the Wire r 1 copy
A Gambling Man r 1 copy
Dream Town r 1 copy
Long Shadows r 1 copy
The Trial 1 copy
David Baldacci Collection - 4 Books (Saving Faith / Absolute Power / The Whole Truth / Split Second) (2000) 1 copy
Memory 1 copy
Associated Works
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contributor — 175 copies
Livros Condensados: O Último Detective | Annus Mirabilis | A Menina do Papá | O Comboio do Natal (2003) 4 copies
Libros selectos. El tatuado de la danza macabra. Vuelo funesto. El halconero. La última jugada (2000) 4 copies
Livros Condensados: O voo das águias | Primeiro prémio | Assassino a soldo | Sétimo céu (1999) 3 copies
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Vanished Man • Street Boys • The Christmas Train • The Summer That Never Was (2003) 2 copies
Het Beste Boek 222: Horen, zien, zwijgen / Zwarte vrouw van de Nijl / Sarin / Nachtreizigers 2 copies
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 223 - Die Versuchung / Only Love - die Liebe allein / Das Medusaprojekt / Ashana (1999) 2 copies
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Rain Fall • The Shadow Catcher • The Summer That Never Was • The Christmas Train (2003) 1 copy
Válogatott könyvek 11. David Baldacci - A nyertes; Jack Higgins - Sasok szárnyán; Nicholas Sparks - Palackba zárt… (1999) 1 copy
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- Other names
- Ford, David
Ford, David B.
Ford, David Baldacci - Birthdate
- 1960-08-05
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Places of residence
- Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Vienna, Virginia, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Education
- University of Virginia (JD)
Virginia Commonwealth University (BA)
Henrico High School - Occupations
- lawyer
author - Organizations
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society (National Ambassador)
Wish You Well Foundation - Awards and honors
- People Magazine's Fifty Most Beautiful People (1997)
- Agent
- Aaron Priest (Aaron Priest Literary Agency)
- Short biography
- David Baldacci (b. 1960 in Richmond, Virginia) is a bestselling American novelist. Baldacci received a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. As a student, Baldacci wrote short stories in his spare time, and later practiced law for nine years near Washington, D.C.. While living in Alexandria, Virginia, Baldacci wrote short stories and screenplays without much success. In despair, he turned to novel writing, taking three years to write Absolute Power. It took Baldacci two years to get the book published, but when it finally did hit the shelves in 1996 it was an international best seller.
David Baldacci serves as a national ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and participates in numerous charities as well as founding his own foundation for literacy, Wish You Well Foundation. Baldacci was raised in Virginia and still resides there (in Vienna, Virginia) with his wife, Michelle A. Collin-Baldacci (Mikki), and two children. His cousin is the Democratic Governor of Maine John Baldacci, first elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006.
In 1997, People magazine named him one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
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Discussions
Let’s Meet.. in Book Discussion : Hell’s Corner by David Baldacci (June 2020)
Chat in Book Discussion : Hell’s Corner by David Baldacci (June 2020)
Chat in Book Discussion : Divine Justice by David Baldacci (May 2020)
Chat in Book Discussion : Stone Cold by David Baldacci (April 2020)
Let’s remind ourselves about the Author. in Book Discussion : Stone Cold by David Baldacci (April 2020)
Chat in Book Discussion: The Collectors by David Baldacci (March 2020)
Meet the Author... in Book Discussion : The Camel Club by David Baldacci (August 2019)
Chat in Book Discussion : The Camel Club by David Baldacci (July 2019)
Meet the Author in Book Discussion : End Game by David Baldacci (December 2018)
Chat in Book Discussion : End Game by David Baldacci (December 2018)
Chat in Book Discussion: The Guilty by David Baldacci (August 2018)
Chat in Book Discussion : The Target by David Baldacci (May 2018)
Chat in Book Discussion : The Hit by David Baldacci (January 2018)
Chat in Book Discussion : King and Maxwell by David Baldacci (September 2017)
Chat in Book Discussion : The Innocent by David Baldacci (August 2017)
Chat in Book Discussion : The Sixth Man by David Baldacci (May 2017)
Chat in Book Discussion - First Family by David Baldacci (January 2017)
Pre Book Discusssion Chat in Book Discussion : Simple Genius by David Baldacci (October 2016)
Crime fiction/Thriller series similar to Jack Reacher in Name that Book (August 2016)
Pre Group Read Discussion in Book Discussion : Hour Game by David Baldacci (July 2016)
YA -Girl in small mountain (mine?) town in Name that Book (July 2016)
Reviews
Memory Man (Amos Decker) by David Baldacci
downhill
LuAnn Tyler is a beautiful, "white trash" truck stop waitress with a useless husband and a really cute baby daughter. A few months after the birth of the daughter, Lisa, LuAnn gets a phone call telling her to go to an office in an unrented storefront of the local shopping mall. Now why anyone would do this after receiving a summons like this and especially after seeing the location...would be anybody's guess. Most sensible people would never have done this in a hundred million years. Once there, she gets an unbelievable offer from a "Mr. Jackson", a monomaniacal, cross-dressing... (I liked that touch) ...manipulator who says he knows the winning numbers in the national lottery before the numbers are drawn. (Maybe I can use Mr. Jackson's talents after all!) He says that LuAnn fits the media's idea of what a lottery winner should be...namely. poor, undereducated...but still mighty proud. I began to question LuAnn's mentality a lot at this point. Mr. Jackson tells her that IF she's willing to buy the right ticket.... at the right time... and then when she wins, transfer most of her huge jackpot winnings to him...then she'll be able to retire in luxury. Of course, as we knew would be the case, there is more that he doesn't tell her. Jackson fails to inform her, that if she refuses his offer, he'll simply...just have her killed. Here's where it became even worse for delusional LuAnn. She barely escapes death when one of her husband's drug deals goes bad. She hops on a train to Manhattan with the hired executioner in hot pursuit. The executioner is one of Jackson's paid handlers and he can't help but hear wedding bells loud and clear when he sees LuAnn with her baby daughter. Wouldn't you know it!?...a winning 100-million-dollar lottery drawing complicates everything....as if things weren't already complicated enough...Jackson now spirits LuAnn and Lisa away to Sweden, with Charlie in, as they say..."hot pursuit". Never fear dear reader...not only will LuAnn escape a series of increasingly violent, and more unbelievable predicaments, but she'll also manage to outwit Jackson, pay an enormous tax bill to the IRS, and have enough left over to honeymoon in luxury in Switzerland. Overall...it's too preposterous to call feminine wish-fulfillment and too formulaic to be really suspenseful. I could hardly believe that David Baldacci actually wrote this. Maybe he was a victim of an alien invasion that took over his body and wrote a "best seller". The ridiculousness of it was in itself entertaining, and I do usually like what David Baldacci pens when his head is on straight...so 4 stars.… (more)
Didn't enjoy it as much as the first book in the series, but still pretty good storytelling.
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