Zero Day
Kirkus Reviews In his 22nd, Baldacci (The Sixth Man, 2011, etc.) introduces a soldier/sleuth who fights like Rambo and thinks like Holmes. Mountain-sized and über-brainy, John Puller is about as unconquerable as mere mortals get to be. An ex-warrior–Iraq, Afghanistan and wherever else his country's enemies happened to be entrenched–he's served with unvarying distinction. As […]
One Summer
The Washington Post – Sarah Pekkanen: Although the writing is flat in a few places and one or two plot twists strain credulity…Baldacci more than makes up for these lapses with his sympathetic characterization of Jack…Fans of Nicholas Sparks in search of summer diversion will find in these pages a good message and a big […]
The Sixth Man
Publishers Weekly 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 professor. Bergin has hired King and Maxwell to assist in his defense of […]
To Die For
Hell's Corner
Library Journal: Hell hath no fury like a retired CIA assassin in pursuit of a terrorist. Baldacci's fifth book in the "Camel Club" series (after Divine Justice) opens with Oliver Stone as a wounded victim of a bombing. The terrorist attack takes place in Lafayette Park in front of what should be the most secure […]
Deliver Us From Evil
Kirkus Reviews In Baldacci's 19th (True Blue, 2009, etc.), boy and girl monster-hunters meet cute. Evan Waller, aka Fadir Kuchin, aka "the Butcher of Kiev," aka "the Ukrainian psychopath," is one of those deep-dyed villains a certain kind of fiction can't do without. Serving with distinction as part of the Soviet Union's KGB, he joyfully […]
Hope Rises
True Blue
Publishers Weekly: 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 Patty Hearst of the twenty-first century? after she was seized by bandits, drugged and taken along on a […]
The Forgotten
Library Journal: Last year's first John Puller thriller debuted in the top spot on the New York Times best sellers list, so fans will be waiting for this second in the series. Here, Puller doesn't believe that his Aunt Betsy's drowning death in her backyard pool was an accident—she sent a letter before she died […]
First Family
Publishers Weekly 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 the Secret Service. They even manage to bruise the ego of First Lady Jane […]