Bøger af David Baldacci

"Sean lå på knæ på gulvet ved siden af en kvinde. Hun lå på ryggen. Med arme og ben ud til siden, som var hun stoppet midt i en sneengel. Hendes øjne var åbne, men hårde og udtryksløse, for hun var død. Det røde hår nåede hende til skuldrene. Det var let at se, hvad der havde dræbt kvinden. Hendes hals var skåret over."Efter en fødselsdagsfest i Det Hvide Hus bliver præsidentens 12-årige niece bortført fra sit hjem. Hendes mor bliver dræbt under bortførelsen, mens resten af familien bliver fundet bevidstløse. FBI bliver straks sat på sagen, men præsidentfruen stoler ikke på, at de kan bringe hendes niece hjem i sikkerhed. I stedet tilkalder hun sine tidligere livvagter Sean King og Michelle Maxwell og beder dem efterforske sagen personligt. Det bryder FBI sig bestemt ikke om, men førstedamen insisterer.Sean og Michelle kaster sig ud i et kapløb mod tiden. De ved endnu ikke, om de kommer til at finde en skræmt ung pige eller et lig, men uanset hvad vil de ikke svigte førstedamens tillid. Mens de efterforsker sagen, pibler de seksuelle spændinger op imellem dem, og det gør det bestemt ikke nemmere at koncentrere sig om sagen."I familiens skygge" udkom første gang i 2009 og er fjerde bog i serien om de tidligere Secret Service-agenter Sean King og Michelle Maxwell.Flere af David Baldaccis bøger er blevet filmatiseret. Thrilleren "Absolute Power" fra 1997 med Clint Eastwood og Ed Harris i hovedrollerne er baseret på en af hans bøger, ligesom tv-serien "King & Maxwell" med Jon Tenney og Rebecca Romjin er baseret på hans thriller-serie om de to detektiver.David Baldacci (f. 1960) er en amerikansk forfatter, der er blevet kendt verden over for sine mange thrillere og krimier. Han er selv uddannet jurist, hvilket skinner igennem i mange af hans romaner, der følger advokaters kamp for at optrevle forbrydelser. David Baldacci har både udgivet selvstændige romaner og serier, hvoraf krimierne om detektiverne Sean King og Michelle Maxwell og serien om Will Robie er nogle af de mest kendte. Hans bøger er blevet oversat til en lang række fremmedsprog og solgt i millioner af eksemplarer verden over.

America has enemiesNruthless 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 just made the firstNand lastNmistake of his career. Available in a tall Premium Format.

John Puller, ante su reto más difícil.Hace treinta años, cuando John Puller y su hermano mayor, Robert, todavía eran muy jóvenes, su madre Jackie desapareció de la base militar de Fort Monroe, Virginia, sin dejar rastro. La vida de John ha estado marcada por este tremendo misterio nunca resuelto. Hasta ahora: la división de investigación criminal del ejército ha recibido una carta de un antiguo amigo y vecino de Fort Monroe en la que acusa al padre de John, ahora un general retirado que vive en una residencia de ancianos y presenta signos evidentes de deterioro mental, de haber acabado con la vida de su esposa treinta años atrás.John tendrá que enfrentarse a su misión más compleja y dolorosa y emprender un viaje que le conducirá hasta Fort Monroe e, inevitablemente, hasta su propia infancia.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONAfter his father is accused of murder, combat veteran and Special Agent John Puller must investigate his past and learn the truth about his mother in this New York Times bestselling thriller--but someone hiding in the shadows wants revenge. Two men. Thirty years. John Puller's mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort Monroe, Virginia, when Puller was just a boy. Paul Rogers has been in prison for ten years. But twenty years before that, he was at Fort Monroe. One night three decades ago, Puller's and Rogers' worlds collided with devastating results, and the truth has been buried ever since. Until now. Military investigators, armed with a letter from a friend of Jackie's, arrive in the hospital room of Puller's father-a legendary three-star now sinking into dementia-and reveal that Puller Sr. has been accused of murdering his wife. Aided by his brother Robert Puller, an Air Force major, and Veronica Knox, who works for a shadowy U.S. intelligence organization, Puller begins a journey that will take him into his own past, to find the truth about his mother. Paul Rogers' time is running out. With the clock ticking, he begins his own journey, one that will take him across the country to the place where all his troubles began: a mysterious building on the grounds of Fort Monroe. There, thirty years ago, the man Rogers had once been vanished too, and was replaced with a monster. And now the monster wants revenge. And the only person standing in his way is John Puller.

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Atlee Pine, an FBI special agent, is called in to investigate the mutilated carcass of a mule found in the Grand Canyon--and hopefully, solve the disappearance of its rider. But this isn't the only recent disappearance. In fact, it may be just the first clue, the key to unraveling a rash of other similar missing persons cases in the canyon.

"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. But now, his skills have left him. Sent overseas on a critical assignment, he fails, unable to pull the trigger. Absent his talents, Robie is a man without a mission, and without a purpose. To recover what he has lost, Robie must confront what he has tried to forget for over twenty years: his own past.

The world's greatest assassins are on a high-risk mission for the President--but a powerful mastermind wants them dead in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.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 multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel.Together, Robie and Reel's talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are some in power who don't trust the pair. They doubt their willingness to follow orders. And they will do anything to see that the two assassins succeed, but that they do not survive.As they prepare for their mission, Reel faces a personal crisis that could well lead old enemies right to her doorstep, resurrecting the ghosts of her earlier life and bringing stark danger to all those close to her. And all the while, Robie and Reel are stalked by a new adversary: an unknown and unlikely assassin, a woman who has trained her entire life to kill, and who has her own list of targets--a list that includes Will Robie and Jessica Reel.

After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.

Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades his boss to allow him to carry out an investigation into the Mars murders.

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 this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci. Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead.  Sara Ewes, Devine’s coworker and former girlfriend, has been found hanging in a storage room of his office building—presumably a suicide, at least for now—prompting the NYPD to come calling on him. If that wasn’t enough, before the day is out, Devine receives another ominous visit, a confrontation that threatens to dredge up grim secrets from his past in the army unless he participates in a clandestine investigation into his firm. This treacherous role will take him from the impossibly glittering lives he once saw only through a train window, to the darkest corners of the country’s economic halls of power . . . where something rotten lurks. And apart from this high-stakes conspiracy, there’s a killer out there with their own agenda, and Devine is the bull’s-eye.

A major standalone thriller from the international bestselling author David Baldacci.