International bestselling author David Baldacci has published 32 thriller novels full of intrigue, suspense, and action including Absolute Power that was turned into a 1997 film starring Clint Eastwood. His political mysteries are as captivating as they are thought-provoking. If you enjoy intense thrillers with large consequences, try these books to read if you like David Baldacci.
Books to Read If You Like David Baldacci
Paladine
Kenneth Eade
Release date: September 18, 2016
When Robert Garcia is pulled out of a promising military career to become an assassin for the CIA he realizes that retirement is not in the cards for him. He disappears.. only to be thrust back into the spotlight when he kills a terrorist and saves 12 lives. After that, he finds employment as a slaughterer of jihadists which sparks an urban legend that grows viral on social media. The world dubs him “Paladine” whose mission is to rid the world of evil. Now Robert must decide who he really is, and who he wants to be.
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James Patterson
Release date: October 4, 2016
Craig Gisto and his elite team Private Sydney think their next missing persons case shouldn’t be that hard to solve. After all, how hard could it be to find a CEO of a high-profile research company that everyone knows? Except it’s not just the man who’s gone missing. Every trace of him is gone. Now with his dauther Eliza Moss as the only lead, they’re not the only one looking for him. Powerful figures want Moss to stay gone and they’ll do anything to stop him from being found.
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John Grisham
Release date: October 25, 2016
Investigator for the Flordia Board on Judicial Conduct Lacy Stoltz is tasked with uncovering problems with convictions and after nine years she knows that most mistakes are incompetence not corruption. But when a previously disbarred lawyer Greg Myers brings one of the largest corruption case in U.S. history to her desk, she knows this one could be dangerous. Myers claims to know of a Florida judge who has stolen more money than all other crooked judges combined. Stoltz pursues the case only to discover that dangerous is one thing, but deadly is another.
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Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley
Release date: October 11, 2016
Major Brooke Grant has been fighting against terrorism since both her parents were killed during 9/11 and is well aware that enemies can enter our border. But when a coordinated attack on the president happens in Washington D.C. under the watchful eye of the Secret Service, she realizes the enemy is a lot closer than she realized. The world’s master terrorist known only as “The Falcon” is behind it and he’s gained a weapon no one has ever seen before: an American-born traitor deep inside the U.S. government itself. Can Grant unmask the traitor and stop the Falcon before he strikes again?
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Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills
Release date: October 11, 2016
The timely story of CIA operatives Mitch Rapp and Scott Coleman are traveling from country to country in attempt to stop Pakistani nukes from ending up in the hands of terrorists. Their mission is made all the more difficult by the Russians who are also searching for these nukes for very different reasons. It becomes clear that the Russians are bent on causing more chaos for the Middle East and Rapp must go undercover in Russian territory as an American ISIS recruit. Soon he uncovers a plan more dangerous than he ever expected.
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John Sandford
Release date: October 18, 2016
Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers vanish from the Minnesota zoo and authorities are worried sick about the potential their body parts are being sold on the black market. People will do extreme things to get their hands on the body parts of tigers as they are highly valued in Chinese medicine. Some are a lot more extreme than others as Virgil Flowers, member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is about to find out.
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