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David Baldacci was born in Virginia, in 1960, where he currently
resides. He received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Virginia
Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University
of Virginia. Mr. Baldacci practiced law for nine years in Washington, D.C.,
as both a trial and corporate attorney.
David Baldacci has published seventeen novels: Absolute
Power, Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth,
Saving Faith, Wish You Well, Last Man Standing, The
Christmas Train, Split Second, Hour Game, The Camel Club, The Collectors, Simple Genius, Stone Cold, and The Whole Truth; and
in his young adult series, Freddy and the French Fries: Fries Alive!
and Freddy and the French Fries: The Adventures of Silas Finklebean. He has also published a novella for the Dutch entitled
Office Hours, written
for Holland's Year 2000 "Month of the Thriller." Baldacci authored
a short story, "The Mighty Johns," as part of a mystery anthology
published in 2002.
His works have been in numerous worldwide magazines, newspapers,
journals, and publications. Baldacci has authored seven original screenplays.
His books have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold in more than 80 countries.
All of his books have been national and international bestsellers. Over 50 million
copies of Mr. Baldacci's books are in print worldwide.
Castle Rock entertainment made Absolute
Power (Warner Books/Grand Central Publishing, 1996) into
a major motion picture starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman. The novel Absolute
Power won Britain's W. H. Smith's Thumping Good Read award for fiction
in 1997, and was nominated for a literary award in Italy. Absolute Power
was selected for People Magazine's
"Page Turner of the Week." Absolute Power won the 1996 Gold
Medal Award for Best Mystery/Thriller from the Southern Writers Guild.
The paperback version of Total
Control (Warner/Grand Cenral, 1996) was a best-selling favorite of the traveling
public for over a year. Total Control won the 1997 Gold Medal Award
for Best Mystery/Thriller from the Southern Writers Guild.
The Winner's (Warner/Grand Cenral, 1997) sales topped those of Baldacci's first two novels, no doubt aided
by revealing in the novel how to fix the lottery and win a hundred million dollars!
The Winner received a starred review in Publishers
Weekly, its highest rating.
The Simple Truth
(Warner/Grand Cenral, 1998) was the first of Baldacci's novels in which part of the
plot was based upon an actual event. President Clinton selected The Simple
Truth as his favorite novel of 1999.
Saving Faith
(Warner/Grand Cenral, 1999) is a novel about how Washington really works, and it reached
number one on both the New York Times Bestseller
List and the Publisher's Weekly national bestseller list. Saving
Faith was selected for People Magazine's "Page Turner of
the Week."
Wish You Well
(Warner/Grand Cenral, 2000) is strongly linked to Baldacci's maternal family history.
In researching for this book, he spent countless hours talking with his mother,
who spent her first seventeen years on the "high rock" and learning
its lifelong lessons. Wish You Well received a starred review in Publisher's
Weekly and was selected as the inaugural book for All
America Reads, a national reading program.
Last Man Standing
(Warner/Grand Cenral, 2001) is an explosive psychological thriller about Web London,
a member of the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue
Team, who is desperate to find answers for secret terrors and relief from unbearable
guilt. Last Man Standing reached number one on the New York Times
Bestseller List.
The Christmas Train
(Warner/Grand Cenral, 2002) is filled with memorable characters who have packed their
bags for a holiday adventure and shows how we do get second chances to fulfill
our deepest hopes and dreams during the season of miracles. The Christmas
Train has quickly become a holiday classic.
Split Second
(Warner/Grand Cenral, 2003) is a compelling, fast-paced political thriller that gives
readers an inside look at the work of the Secret Service as it strives to protect
America's leaders. As their worlds close in upon them, former agents Sean King
and Michelle Maxwell team up to seek answer to events that, at first glance,
seem to be unrelated disasters. Split Second became a New York
Times bestseller on its first day of publication.
Hour Game (Warner/Grand Cenral, 2004) teams Sean King and Michelle Maxwell from Split Second
in a race to prove a man’s innocence in a domestic burglary. They quickly
find themselves caught in a chain of murders that once again rocks the quiet
hills of Wrightsburg, Virginia. At every turn, King and Maxwell find themselves
trying to put the pieces together as the killer is plays the murderous "hour
game."
In The Camel Club
(Warner/Grand Cenral, 2005), Baldacci goes beyond the traditional boundaries
of fiction, painting a frighteningly vivid portrait of a world that
could be our own very soon, and the few people who have a chance to
stop the last war the world may ever fight.
In The Collectors
(Warner/Grand Cenral, 2006), Baldacci weaves a brilliant, white-knuckle tale
of suspense in which every collectors is searching for one missing
prize... the one to die for.
Simple Genius (Warner/Grand Cenral, 2007) brings back the dynamic team of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell from Split Second and Hour Game.
While investigating a dead body found in Babbage Town -- a think-tank
and high tech research facility just across the York River from the CIA
Training Facility in Camp Peary, Virginia -- King & Maxwell find
themselves thrown into the midst of a worldwide race to control
information, and at any cost -- even murder.
Stone Cold (Warner/Grand Central, 2007) brings back the unusual group of sleuths, the Camel Club, for another mystery involving Jerry Bagger, Annabel Conroy, Alex Ford, and a deadly assassin whose identity, like Oliver Stone's, remains veiled in mystery.
The Whole Truth (Grand Central, 2008) represents David's first international thriller, one that presents the all-too-real world of perception management into the forefront of global defense contractor activities.
Freddy and the French Fries: Fries Alive! (Little,
Brown & Company, 2005) and Freddy and the French Fries: The Adventures of Silas Finklebean (Little, Brown & Company, 2006) are titles in Baldacci's series for young readers.
Find out more about Freddy at his Web site, FreddyandtheFrenchFries.com.
David Baldacci's books have been publicly discussed and/or
read by everyone from Howard Stern and Don Imus to Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh,
from George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton to Charlie Rose and Larry King.
Baldacci has made many television and radio appearances
and has been featured in numerous national and international publications.
David Baldacci serves as a national ambassador for the National
Multiple Sclerosis Society and participates in numerous charities, including
the Barbara Bush Foundation
for Family Literacy, the American Cancer
Society, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
He sits on the boards of the Virginia Foundation
for the Humanities and Virginia Commonwealth
University. Baldacci also holds various honorary chairs.
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