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David Baldacci

Autor(a) de The Camel Club

147+ Works 119,087 Membros 3,180 Reviews 202 Favorited

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, mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras de David Baldacci

The Camel Club (2005) 5,201 cópias
The Collectors (2006) 4,502 cópias
Split Second (2003) 4,442 cópias
Hour Game (2004) 4,233 cópias
Simple Genius (2007) 3,909 cópias
Stone Cold (2007) 3,902 cópias
Absolute Power (1996) 3,605 cópias
The Winner (1997) 3,439 cópias
Saving Faith (1999) 3,388 cópias
Last Man Standing (2001) 3,357 cópias
The Simple Truth (1998) 3,216 cópias
First Family (2009) 3,211 cópias
Total Control (1996) 3,206 cópias
The Whole Truth (2008) 3,196 cópias
Divine Justice (2008) 3,172 cópias
Wish You Well (2000) 2,988 cópias
The Innocent (2012) 2,920 cópias
Zero Day (2011) 2,831 cópias
Memory Man (2015) 2,666 cópias
The Christmas Train (2002) — Autor — 2,628 cópias
Hell's Corner (2010) 2,527 cópias
True Blue (2009) 2,506 cópias
The Sixth Man (2011) 2,403 cópias
The Hit (2013) 2,395 cópias
The Forgotten (2012) 2,360 cópias
Deliver Us from Evil (2010) 2,292 cópias
The Last Mile (2016) 2,150 cópias
The Target (2014) 1,977 cópias
The Escape (2014) 1,967 cópias
The Guilty (2015) 1,887 cópias
The Fix (2017) — Autor — 1,886 cópias
King and Maxwell (2013) 1,853 cópias
Long Road to Mercy (2018) 1,651 cópias
The Fallen (2018) 1,602 cópias
No Man's Land (2016) 1,578 cópias
One Summer (2011) 1,490 cópias
End Game (2017) — Autor — 1,453 cópias
Redemption (2019) 1,339 cópias
A Minute to Midnight (2019) 1,320 cópias
Walk the Wire (2020) 1,240 cópias
One Good Deed (2019) 1,193 cópias
The Finisher (2014) 1,190 cópias
Daylight (2020) 1,080 cópias
A Gambling Man (2021) 859 cópias
The 6:20 Man (2022) 854 cópias
Mercy (2021) 723 cópias
Long Shadows (2022) 650 cópias
Dream Town (2022) 615 cópias
Simply Lies (2023) 514 cópias
FaceOff (2014) — Editor — 502 cópias
The Keeper (2015) 483 cópias
Day of Doom (2013) 481 cópias
The Edge (2023) 323 cópias
The Width of the World (2017) 256 cópias
No Time Left (2010) 246 cópias
The Stars Below (2019) 149 cópias
Fries Alive! (2005) 139 cópias
Office Hours (2000) 118 cópias
The Mighty Johns (2002) 93 cópias
A Calamity of Souls (2024) 16 cópias
The Christmas Train [2017 TV movie] (2017) — Autor — 12 cópias
Wish You Well [2013 film] (2013) — Autor — 8 cópias
The Final Play (2021) 7 cópias
The Christmas Box (2001) 6 cópias
One Summer [2021 TV movie] (2022) — Autor — 5 cópias
Downfall (2021) 5 cópias
Split Second / Hour Game (2009) 3 cópias
About the Author 2 cópias
Evil 2 cópias
Absolute Power 2 cópias
הפרס הגדול 1 exemplar(es)
The Lion 1 exemplar(es)
The Trial 1 exemplar(es)
Simply 1 exemplar(es)
Split Second [Abridged Audiobook] (2007) 1 exemplar(es)
Finstere Lügen 1 exemplar(es)
Camino Island r 1 exemplar(es)
The Camel Club r 1 exemplar(es)
The Innocent Have Fallen 1 exemplar(es)
Lang vei mot dag (2023) 1 exemplar(es)
The Places in Between 1 exemplar(es)
As you Were 1 exemplar(es)
The Camel Club series 1 exemplar(es)
Memory 1 exemplar(es)
H. (1900) 1 exemplar(es)
Balance of Power 1 exemplar(es)
A Gambling Man / One Good Deed (2022) 1 exemplar(es)
Divine Justice / The Whole Truth (1997) 1 exemplar(es)
Split Second Poster (2003) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

No Rest for the Dead: A Serial Novel (2011) — Contribuinte; Introdução — 404 cópias
Reader's Digest Select Editions 2019 v05 #367 (2019) — Autor — 4 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Ford, David
Ford, David B.
Ford, David Baldacci
Data de nascimento
1960-08-05
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Locais de residência
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Vienna, Virginia, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Educação
University of Virginia (JD)
Virginia Commonwealth University (BA)
Henrico High School
Ocupação
lawyer
author
Organizações
National Multiple Sclerosis Society (National Ambassador)
Wish You Well Foundation
Premiações
People Magazine's Fifty Most Beautiful People (1997)
Agente
Aaron Priest (Aaron Priest Literary Agency)
Pequena biografia
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.

Membros

Discussions

Let’s Meet.. em Book Discussion : Hell’s Corner by David Baldacci (Junho 2020)
Chat em Book Discussion : Hell’s Corner by David Baldacci (Junho 2020)
Chat em Book Discussion : Divine Justice by David Baldacci (Maio 2020)
Chat em Book Discussion : Stone Cold by David Baldacci (Abril 2020)
Let’s remind ourselves about the Author. em Book Discussion : Stone Cold by David Baldacci (Abril 2020)
Chat em Book Discussion: The Collectors by David Baldacci (Março 2020)
Meet the Author... em Book Discussion : The Camel Club by David Baldacci (Agosto 2019)
Chat em Book Discussion : The Camel Club by David Baldacci (Julho 2019)
Meet the Author em Book Discussion : End Game by David Baldacci (Dezembro 2018)
Chat em Book Discussion : End Game by David Baldacci (Dezembro 2018)
Chat em Book Discussion: The Guilty by David Baldacci (Agosto 2018)
Chat em Book Discussion : The Target by David Baldacci (Maio 2018)
Chat em Book Discussion : The Hit by David Baldacci (Janeiro 2018)
Chat em Book Discussion : King and Maxwell by David Baldacci (Setembro 2017)
Chat em Book Discussion : The Innocent by David Baldacci (Agosto 2017)
Chat em Book Discussion : The Sixth Man by David Baldacci (Maio 2017)
Chat em Book Discussion - First Family by David Baldacci (Janeiro 2017)
Pre Book Discusssion Chat em Book Discussion : Simple Genius by David Baldacci (Outubro 2016)
Pre Group Read Discussion em Book Discussion : Hour Game by David Baldacci (Julho 2016)
YA -Girl in small mountain (mine?) town em Name that Book (Julho 2016)

Resenhas

This was David Baldacci’s first novel, and he clearly got off to a flying start.

A professional burglar breaks into an opulent house near Washington DC. He has done his research, and confidently expects that the house will be empty, as the occupants are supposed to be on holiday in the Caribbean. However, while he is in the property, he hears people coming into the house, and as luck would have it, they come up to the master bedroom, where he had been clearing out the contents of a large walk-in safe. He withdraws into the safe, pulling it closed behind him. At this point he realises that the mirror on the door of the safe is two-way, and from his vantage point he watches proceeding unfold.

And those proceedings are noteworthy. The newcomers on the scene are the young wife of the octogenarian owner of the house and her new lover, who happens also to be the President of the United States. Things do not go to plan, and the woman ends up dead, shot by members of the President’s security detail, who, it seems, accompany him even on such trysts. After the President and his party withdraw, the burglar makes good his escape, stopping only to retrieve a vital piece of evidence of what has taken place.

Initially unaware that a witness has been on the scene, the President’s party return to the scene to clear away al traces, and become aware that a burglar had been there, and that evidence has gone missing. This leads to a massive clandestine operation to discover who is involved, and what they might plan to do with their knowledge.

This may all sound rather contrived, but that is more down to my clumsy synopsis. To the reader, it all comes across with great urgency and plausibility, and I was caught up right from the start. I believe that before becoming a full time writer, Baldacci was a solicitor, but his spare and clear prose, and his ability to unwind a compelling and gripping story suggest he might also have made an admirable journalist.
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Eyejaybee | outras 67 resenhas | Mar 22, 2024 |
This fast pace thriller is a new series but follows the complicate twist plot that David Balducci is good at. I enjoyed the book and the character is well layout. The redemption/second chance is heavy and center in the book.
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Baochuan | outras 31 resenhas | Mar 8, 2024 |
 
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MustangGuy | outras 39 resenhas | Feb 27, 2024 |
I found this thriller very entertaining. I had got rather out of the habit of reading books like this, and had forgotten how enjoyable a well-written thriller can be.

Set a few years after the 9/11 attacks, it recounts a plot against the American President hatched by a group featuring radicalised Islamists, and the various countermeasures undertaken by the various (indeed, numerous) intelligence and security agencies. The Camel Club of the title is a group of disaffected citizens living in and around Washington DC who have been reviewing the proliferation of power accumulated by the security agencies in the wake of 9/11, along with all sorts of conspiracy theories abounding within the fringes of life in the capital.

The principal member of the Camel Club now goes by the name of Oliver Stone, in a nod to the film director’s works challenging aspects of the establishment version of history. We gradually learn that he has a dark history in which under his real name he had been an accomplished servant of the agencies on which he now attempts to keep tabs.

The narrative continually moves perspective, at different times following Stone, initiates of the terrorist group, or member sof the various security organisations. This was managed deftly, and enhanced, rather than hampered, the flow of the story.
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Eyejaybee | outras 129 resenhas | Feb 27, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
147
Also by
26
Membros
119,087
Popularidade
#67
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
3,180
ISBNs
3,105
Idiomas
27
Favorito
202

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