David Baldacci is an American author born in Richmond, Virginia on 5th August, 1960. After practicing law for many years, Baldacci turned to novel writing, he’d been writing stories since childhood. Within three years the author had written Absolute Power, published in 1996 and it was an international bestseller.
To date, David Baldacci has written 34 best selling novels for adults as well as six novels for younger children. In an interview with the Telegraph a couple of years ago, Baldacci spoke of the books that were his own personal favourites and we have those for you today.
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