David Baldacci

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David Baldacci
  • Bibliography:
    63 Books (12 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1996
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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About the Author

David Baldacci is a global #1 bestselling author, and one of the world's favorite storytellers. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with over 130 million worldwide sales. His works have been adapted for both feature film and television. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia, he invites you to visit him at DavidBaldacci.com and his foundation at WishYouWellFoundation.org.

Full Series List in Order

The 6:20 Man

1 - The 6:20 Man (Jan-2022)
2 - The Edge (Nov-2023)
3 - To Die For (Nov-2024)

Aloysius Archer

1 - One Good Deed (Jul-2019)
2 - A Gambling Man (Apr-2021)
3 - Dream Town (Apr-2022)

A Memory Man Novel

1 - Memory Man (Apr-2015)
2 - The Last Mile (Apr-2016)
3 - The Fix (Apr-2017)
4 - The Fallen (Apr-2018)
5 - Redemption (Apr-2019)
6 - Walk the Wire (Apr-2020)
7 - Long Shadows (Oct-2022)

Atlee Pine

1 - Long Road to Mercy (Nov-2018)
2 - A Minute to Midnight (Nov-2019)
3 - Daylight (Nov-2020)
4 - Mercy (Nov-2021)

The Camel Club

1 - The Camel Club (Oct-2005)
2 - The Collectors (Oct-2006)
3 - Stone Cold (Nov-2007)
4 - Divine Justice (Nov-2008)
5 - Hell's Corner (Nov-2010)
5.5 - Bullseye (Feb-2014)

Freddy and the French Fries

1 - Fries Alive! (Jun-2005)
2 - The Mystery of Silas Finklebean (Jul-2008)

John Puller

1 - Zero Day (Nov-2011)
2 - The Forgotten (Nov-2012)
3 - The Escape (Nov-2014)
4 - No Man's Land (Nov-2016)

Sean King & Michelle Maxwell

1 - Split Second (Sep-2003)
2 - Hour Game (Oct-2004)
3 - Simple Genius (May-2007)
4 - First Family (May-2009)
5 - The Sixth Man (Apr-2011)
6 - King and Maxwell (Nov-2013)

Shaw

1 - The Whole Truth (May-2008)
2 - Deliver Us from Evil (Apr-2010)

Travis Devine

1 - The 6:20 Man (Jan-2022)
2 - The Edge (Nov-2023)

Vega Jane

1 - The Finisher // Vega Jane and the Secrets of Sorcery (Mar-2014)
2 - The Keeper // Vega Jane and the Maze of Monsters (Sep-2015)
3 - The Width of the World // Vega Jane and the Rebels' Revolt (Mar-2017)
4 - The Stars Below // Vega Jane and the End of Time (Feb-2019)

Will Robie

1 - The Innocent (Apr-2012)
2 - The Hit (Apr-2013)
2.5 - Bullseye (Feb-2014)
3 - The Target (Apr-2014)
4 - The Guilty (Nov-2015)
5 - End Game (Nov-2017)

Multi-Author Series List

The 39 Clues: Cahills Vs. Vespers

6 - Day of Doom (Mar-2013)

Book List in Order: 63 titles

  • Absolute Power

    In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping a burglar behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and the witness is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal...

  • Total Control

    TOTAL HEAT Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can ...

  • The Winner

    The Dream... She is 20, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. foreve...

  • The Simple Truth

    "SIZZLING" David Baldacci's novels have been called "sizzling" (USA Today) and "superior" (Houston Chronicle). Now Baldacci is back, with the story of a death row inmate, a Supreme Court clerk, and a crime that is costing people their lives... TERRI...

  • Saving Faith

    BELIEVE THE POWER In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had, a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and she'll tell too mu...

  • Wish You Well

    Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes -- and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the ...

  • Last Man Standing

    THE FIRST MAN IN ... Web London was trained to penetrate hostile ground and come out alive. Then ten seconds in a dark alley cost him everything: his friends, his fellow agents, his reputation. Among his super-elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team, Web wa...

  • The Mighty Johns and Other Stories

    The extraordinary novella by thriller king David Baldacci that leads off this exceptional anthology of new fiction centered on crime and football is alone worth the book's cover price. "The Mighty Johns" is one of the more remarkable stories ever wri...

  • The Christmas Train

    Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington, D.C., to L.A. in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pullin...



  • Split Second

    Sean King & Michelle Maxwell - 1

    THE WORLD CAN CHANGE FOREVER IN A SINGLE... SPLIT SECOND Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose ...

  • Hour Game

    Sean King & Michelle Maxwell - 2

    A woman is found murdered in the woods with a very special watch on her wrist-and what seemed a simple case soon escalates into a nightmare. The criminal methods of some of the most infamous killers of all time are being replicated by a new predator ...

  • Fries Alive!

    Freddy and the French Fries - 1

    Freddy Funkhouser comes up with an idea to bolster business for his family's fast-food health restaurant, Burger Castle, and finally defeat Pookesville's biggest bully, Adam Spanker. When Freddy's fun invention goes awry, the results are five very fu...

  • The Camel Club

    The Camel Club - 1

    It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions. One man leads this aging...

  • The Collectors

    The Camel Club - 2

    Over the hill. Out of the loop. And trying to save their country . . . In Washington, D. C., four men with mysterious pasts call themselves the Camel Club. Their mission: find out what's really happening behind the closed doors of America's lead...

  • Simple Genius

    Sean King & Michelle Maxwell - 3

    IN A WORLD OF SECRETS, HUMAN GENIUS IS POWER. AND SOMETIMES IT IS SIMPLY DEADLY... Near Washington, D.C., there are two clandestine institutions: the world's most unusual laboratory and a secret CIA training camp. Drawn to these sites by a murder, e...

  • Stone Cold

    The Camel Club - 3

    Oliver Stone, the leader of the mysterious group that calls itself the Camel Club, is both feared and respected by those who've crossed his path. Keeping a vigilant watch over our leaders in Washington, D.C., the Camel Club has won over some allies, ...

  • The Whole Truth

    Shaw - 1

    "Dick, I need a war."Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. He's retained Dick Pender to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating world conflicts. Howe...

  • The Mystery of Silas Finklebean

    Freddy and the French Fries - 2

    In this sequel to "Fries Alive!," Freddy Funkhauser discovers the lab of long-lost scientist Silas Finklebean, along with instructions on how to build a time machine. With Finklebean's help, Freddie is determined to prove himself to bully Adam Spanke...

  • Divine Justice

    The Camel Club - 4

    Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci's most surprising thriller yet . . . Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone's life and kep...



  • First Family

    Sean King & Michelle Maxwell - 4

    It began with what seemed like an ordinary children's birthday party. Friends and family gathered to celebrate. There were balloons and cake, games and gifts. This party, however, was far from ordinary. It was held at Camp David, the presidential...

  • True Blue

    A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation's capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci's new, heart-stopping thriller. TRUE BLUE Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she wa...

  • Deliver Us from Evil

    Shaw - 2

    Evan Waller is a monster... He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything ... and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the glo...

  • Hell's Corner

    The Camel Club - 5

    An attack on the heart of power.. . In sight of the White House . . . At a place known as . . . HELL'S CORNER John Carr, aka Oliver Stone -- once the most skilled assassin his country ever had -- stands in Lafayette Park in front of the White House....

  • The Sixth Man

    Sean King & Michelle Maxwell - 5

    Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind. THE SIXTH MAN Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a...

  • No Time Left

    Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Becker takes a mysterious job, he has no idea that it will force him to delve deeply into his own past. Undeterred by obstacles he is determined to complete his assignment. But he may reali...

  • One Summer

    It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinka...

  • Zero Day

    John Puller - 1

    From David Baldacci-the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist-comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation. And Zero Day is where it all begins.... John Puller is a co...

  • The Innocent

    Will Robie - 1

    America has enemies -- ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have...

  • The Forgotten

    John Puller - 2

    In Paradise, nothing is what it seems... Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case-but this time, th...



  • Day of Doom

    The 39 Clues: Cahills Vs. Vespers - 6

    THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE It started with a kidnapping. A shadowy organization known only as the Vespers snatched seven members of the Cahill family and demanded a series of bizarre ransoms from around the world. Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his ...

  • The Hit

    Will Robie - 2

    Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims. No one else ...

  • King and Maxwell

    Sean King & Michelle Maxwell - 6

    David Baldacci brings back Sean King and Michelle Maxwell-former Secret Service agents turned private investigators, featured in the hit TNT TV series King & Maxwell-in their most surprising, personal, and dangerous case ever . . . KING AND MAXWE...

  • Bullseye

    The Camel Club - 5.5
    Will Robie - 2.5

    In this all-new short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, worlds collide when government assassin Will Robie is caught in the crossfire with Oliver Stone and the Camel Club. Will Robie is closing in on his next target w...

  • The Finisher // Vega Jane and the Secrets of Sorcery

    Vega Jane - 1

    Why would Quentin Herms flee into the Quag? There was nothing in the Quag except certain death. Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But this isn't unusual -- nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. At least not until Quentin He...

  • The Target

    Will Robie - 3

    The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would...

  • The Escape

    John Puller - 3

    #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci returns with his next thriller featuring military investigator John Puller. THE ESCAPE It's a prison unlike any other. Military discipline rules. Its security systems are unmatched. None of its pr...

  • Face Off

    In this unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world's favourite crime writers bring you original, co-written short stories featuring their much-loved series characters. FACE OFF includes the first meeting of Ian Rankin's Rebus and Peter Ja...

  • Memory Man

    A Memory Man Novel - 1

    Amos Decker's life changed forever—twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very ...

  • The Keeper // Vega Jane and the Maze of Monsters

    Vega Jane - 2

    THE FIGHT OF HER LIFE VEGA JANE was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with danger and death. And she always accepted it -- until the night she stumbled a...



  • The Guilty

    Will Robie - 4

    Will Robie is the government's most professional, disciplined, and lethal assassin. He infiltrates the most hostile countries in the world, defeats our enemies' advanced security measures, and eliminates threats before they ever reach our shores. ...

  • The Last Mile

    A Memory Man Novel - 2

    In his #1 New York Times bestseller Memory Man, David Baldacci introduced the extraordinary detective Amos Decker-the man who can forget nothing. Now, Decker returns in a spectacular new thriller . . . THE LAST MILE Convicted murderer Melvin Mar...

  • No Man's Land

    John Puller - 4

    Special Agent John Puller, combat veteran and the army's most tenacious investigator, is back in this action-packed thriller from worldwide #1 bestselling author David Baldacci. NO MAN'S LAND Two men. Thirty years. John Puller's mother, Jack...

  • The Width of the World // Vega Jane and the Rebels' Revolt

    Vega Jane - 3

    This is it. Vega Jane's time. She's been lied to her whole life, so she breaks away from Wormwood, the only home she's ever known, in search of the truth. She battles horrors to fight her way across the Quag with her best friend, Delph, and her myste...

  • The Fix

    A Memory Man Novel - 3

    Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself. Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling....

  • End Game

    Will Robie - 5

    Lethal government assassin Will Robie returns in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling series Will Robie returns home from a mission overseas to discover that his boss -- codenamed Blue Man -- has vanished. His last known location was in ...

  • The Fallen

    A Memory Man Novel - 4

    David Baldacci returns with the next blockbuster thriller in his #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series featuring detective Amos Decker--the man who can forget nothing. Amos Decker and his journalist friend Alex Jamison are visiting the h...

  • Long Road to Mercy

    Atlee Pine - 1

    #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces a remarkable new character: Atlee Pine, an FBI special agent assigned to the remote wilds of the western United States. Ever since her twin sister was abducted by a notorious serial kille...

  • The Stars Below // Vega Jane and the End of Time

    Vega Jane - 4

    This is it. Vega Jane has tried to outrun, outsmart, and outlast her enemy, but the showdown she has dreaded is finally here. Her ragtag crew must take a stand against a fully trained army, knowing the odds are impossible, knowing each of them could ...

  • Redemption

    A Memory Man Novel - 5

    Detective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly consequences in the latest Memory Man thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Amos Decker and his FBI partner Alex J...



  • One Good Deed

    Aloysius Archer - 1

    Murder and family secrets, a touch of romance and deeply-felt revenge - with the twist of all twists - make up the ingredients of One Good Deed. A gripping audiobook for all those who love mystery, crime, Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie from one...

  • A Minute to Midnight

    Atlee Pine - 2

    FBI Agent Atlee Pine returns to her Georgia hometown to reopen the investigation of her twin sister's abduction, only to encounter a serial killer beginning a reign of terror, in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling autho...

  • Walk the Wire

    A Memory Man Novel - 6

    Amos Decker -- the FBI consultant with a perfect memory -- returns to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town in the newest thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series. When Amos Decker and h...

  • Daylight

    Atlee Pine - 3

    FBI Agent Atlee Pine's search for her sister Mercy clashes with military investigator John Puller's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy -- from which neither of them will escape unscathed. For many long years,...

  • A Gambling Man

    Aloysius Archer - 2

    Evoking the golden age of crime and for fans of Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, comes A Gambling Man from one of the world's bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci. A lucky roll of the dice It is nearly 1950 and Aloysius Archer ...

  • Mercy

    Atlee Pine - 4

    FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in this breakneck thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. For her entire life, FBI agent Atlee Pine has been searching f...

  • The 6:20 Man

    The 6:20 Man - 1
    Travis Devine - 1

    A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s new thriller. Every day without fail, ...

  • Dream Town

    Aloysius Archer - 3

    Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case in this latest thriller in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s Nero...

  • Long Shadows

    A Memory Man Novel - 7

    From the author of The 6:20 Man, “Memory Man” Amos Decker -- an FBI consultant with perfect recall -- delves into a bewildering double homicide in this new thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling series. &#x...

  • Simply Lies

    Simply Lies is an intense thriller featuring Mickey Gibson, a former New Jersey detective, from the number one bestselling author David Baldacci. NO TRUTH Former Jersey City detective and single mother of two, Mickey Gibson, now works for globa...

  • The Edge

    The 6:20 Man - 2
    Travis Devine - 2

    The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America’s dirtiest secrets -- can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Sil...

  • A Calamity of Souls

    Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from...

  • To Die For

    The 6:20 Man - 3

    From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid the in a complicated FBI case -- and he's about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train. Travis Devine has...

  • Strangers in Time

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci’s newest novel, set in London in 1944, about a bereaved book shop owner and two teenagers scarred by the second world war, and the healing and hope they find ...

Award-Winning Books by David Baldacci

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Baldacci has published 63 books.

The next book by David Baldacci, Strangers in Time, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by David Baldacci, Absolute Power, was published in February 1996.

Yes. David Baldacci has 12 series.
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