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David Baldacci Author Read Alikes December 7, 2014
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If you enjoy reading books by David Baldacci try these authors.
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The Rule of Nine by Steve MartiniAfter a career terrorist threatens to destroy the Supreme Court in a single horrible act, defense attorney Paul Madriani must put his life on the line in order to stop the sinister deed before it comes to fruition.
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Cut and Thrust by Stuart WoodsAttending the biggest political convention of the year in Los Angeles, Stone Barrington discovers that a close friend has posed an unexpected choice to delegates, causing alliances to be forged and broken while dark adversaries use the chaos to hide sinister plans. .
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The Lion's Game : A Novel by Nelson DeMilleDetective John Corey sets out to capture the world's most dangerous terrorist--a young Arab known as "The Lion"--a man who will stop at nothing in his quest for vengeance against America for bombing Libya and killing his family.
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Afraid of the Dark by James GrippandoInvestigating the alibi of a man who faces the death penalty for a terrorist act that killed Chuck Mays' daughter and blinded Vince Paulo, Jack Swyteck uncovers evidence of an international threat greater than anything he has imagined.
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Vigilante
by Stephen J. Cannell
A final novel by the Emmy Award-winning television writer best known for such programs as The Rockford Files and The A-Team finds LAPD detective Shane Scully and his partner, Sumner Hitchens, investigating a possible killer in their precinct when a trouble-making activist is found dead in her home.
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Gray Mountain : A Novel by John GrishamLosing her job at New York City's largest law firm in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Samantha becomes an unpaid intern in a small Appalachian community where she stumbles upon dangerous secrets.
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The Burning Room by Michael ConnellyDetective Bosch and new rookie partner Lucia Soto chase elusive leads in a case involving a victim who succumbs to complications from a bullet wound sustained nine years earlier.
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Robert Ludlum's The Utopia Experiment by Kyle MillsWhile assessing the military potential of a new intelligence device, Covert-One's Colonel Jon Smith realizes that the technology must never fall into the hands of America's enemies
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Accused : a Rosato & Associates Novel by Lisa Scottoline"New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Lisa Scottoline revolutionized crime fiction when she introduced her all-female law firm of Rosato & Associates, thrilling readers with her twisty, fast-paced plots and capturing their hearts with her cast of strong yet totally relatable female characters. Fans have been clamoring for more stories with the characters they've come to know and love, so Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, Judy Carrier, and Anne Murphy are back with all cylinders firing inAccused. They'll face their most challenging and dangerous case ever. It begins with an astonishing request from a thirteen-year-old prospective client. Allegra Gardner's sister Fiona was murdered six years ago. It seemed like an open-and-shut case: the accused, Lonnie Stall, was seen fleeing the scene; his blood was on Fiona and her blood was on him; most damningly, Lonnie Stall pleaded guilty. But Allegra believes Lonnie is innocent and has been wrongly imprisoned. Taking on the case seems foolhardyto Mary DiNunzio, because the Gardner family is one of the richest and most powerful in the country and Allegra's parents do not believe in reopening this case. But the Rosato & Associates firm can never resist an underdog. Was justice really served all those years ago? It will take a team of unstoppable female lawyers, plus one thirteen-year-old genius, to find out. Accused kicks off an annual fall series featuring the new adventures of Rosato & Associates, delivering all the emotion, action, and humor we've come to expect from one of the best writers in the business.From The New York Times bestselling author comes a much-anticipated new thriller featuring the all-female law firm, Rosato & Associates "
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Identical
by Scott Turow
Based loosely on the myth of Castor and Pollux, this electrifying novel of murder, sex and betrayal follows Cass as he, released from prison after serving 25 years for the murder of his girlfriend, is subjected to a re-investigation of her murder, while his identical twin brother Paul runs for office.
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The Inner Circle by Brad MeltzerAfter an archivist goes against security protocol to show an ex-crush the president's private room at the National Archives, the two stumble upon a dictionary once owned by George Washington and are soon entangled in a web of conspiracy and murder.
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The Dark Side of Midnight : The Other Side of Midnight, Rage of Angels, Bloodline by Sidney SheldonAn omnibus edition featuring three of the best-selling novelist's most popular works includes The Other Side of Midnight, Rage of Angels, and Bloodline, in which a young woman takes over the helm of an international pharmaceutical company in the wake of her father's sudden death and finds the family threatened by an unknown enemy.
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Poison Flower by Thomas PerryProtecting a man wrongly charged with the murder of his wife, Jane Whitefield is shot and abducted by the real culprits, who threaten to kill her if she does not reveal her client's whereabouts.
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The Cruiser : A Dan Lenson Novel by David PoyerWhen his ship runs aground on an exposed sandbar, newly promoted Captain Dan Lenson is forced to rally his demoralized crew, confront a mysterious death on board and learn to operate the ship's classified missile system at the risk of hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Capitol Betrayal: A Novel
by William Bernhardt
Serving in the White House Special Counsel office when a foreign dictator infiltrates the U.S.'s ballistic missile computer system, Ben Kincaid races against time to prevent a nuclear crisis while the vice president calls the president's sanity into question.
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Vanished by Joseph FinderAfter an assault leaves his estranged brother nowhere to be found and his sister-in-law in a coma, security investigator and ex-intelligence agent Nick Heller is forced to seek help even from his despised convict father as Nick contends with one of the most powerful and secretive corporations in the world, an endeavor which may get him and everyone he's trying to protect killed.
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Outrage by Robert TanenbaumWhen his wife discovers that his office has indicted an innocent man for murder, New York District Attorney Butch Karp faces the most challenging case of his career to expose failing internal systems, confront the NYPD and catch the real killer.
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A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey ArcherA fateful meeting between Danny Cartwright, an East End cockney garage mechanic, and Spencer Craig, a young West End barrister on the fast track to success, ends in Danny being arrested, convicted of murder--thanks to Spencer, who becomes the prosecution's main witness--and sent to prison, where he spends his time plotting to escape and seek revenge.
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Tiger's Claw by Dale BrownAfter he and his team refurbish America's aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific--one that McLanahan is determined to win no matter what the cost.
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Inferno : A Novel by Dan BrownIn the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces … Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle.
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A Wanted Man : A Reacher Novel by Lee ChildSix minutes after hitchhiking at the end of Worth Dying For, Jack Reacher finds himself on a roller-coaster ride of escalating tensions where nothing is as it seems.
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Terminal City : A Novel by Linda A. FairsteinAssistant DA Alexandra Cooper and detective Mike Chapman confront Grand Central Terminal's dark secrets as well as their own changing relationship
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Nightmare City by Andrew KlavanAwakening one morning to find his entire town empty of everyone and everything except an eerie fog that conceals strange hungry zombies slowly moving toward him, aspiring journalist Tom desperately searches for answers during the harrowing hours that ensue in order to survive.
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The Drop by Dennis LehaneWhile rescuing an abused puppy from a trash can on the streets of Mystic River, a lonely bartender meets a damaged woman, who is looking for something to believe in, and as their relationship grows, they encounter the Chechen mafia, stick-up artists, a relentless cop and the original owner of the puppy who now wants it back.
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Full Measure by T. Jefferson ParkerAn Afghanistan War veteran puts his dreams on hold to save his family farm before confronting a terrible choice in the aftermath of his crime-connected brother's disappearance.
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Ghost Medicine by Aimée Thurlo"Former Navajo Police officer Harry Ute's body is found in an isolated part of the Navajo Reservation, rumored to be skinwalker country. This makes Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's job much harder--no one wants to speak to her for fear of incurring the wrath of the Navajo witches. Harry's latest P.I. case involves tracking down property stolen from the county. This leads Ella to work with county Detective Dan Nez. Ella doesn't trust Nez but can't deny her growing attraction to him. The murder and thefts turn out to be the tip of an iceberg. Previously unknown Navajo artifacts are being offered for sale, indicating a hidden dig somewhere on the Reservation. As danger mounts, Ella worries that her latest case might also become her last"
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The Kill List by Frederick ForsythA counter-terrorist unit hunts down the Preacher, a terrorist who radicalizes young Muslims into carrying out assassinations, in this new novel from the award-winning author of The Day of the Jackal.
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The Sicilian by Mario PuzoAfter his three-year exile in Sicily, Michael Corleone is charged to return to America with Salvatore Giuliano, a young Sicilian bandit whose activities have angered the head of the Sicilian Mafia. .
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Kill Shot : An American Assassin Thriller
by Vince Flynn
Working his way through a list of hit targets who were responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of civilians, assassin Mitch Rapp shoots a drunken Libyan diplomat in Paris only to discover that he has been set up and that his handlers would have him permanently silenced. By the author of American Assassin. 850,000 first printing.
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Heaven's Fury : A Novel by Stephen W. FreyPreparing for a dangerous snowstorm in rural Wisconsin, sheriff Paul Summers finds his efforts hampered by the arrival of a mysterious group of criminals, a suspicious disappearance, rumors of cult activity and the murder of a former lover.
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The Rule of Four : A Novel by Ian CaldwellEndeavoring to decipher a five-hundred-year old text that weaves a mathematical labyrinth within a love story, researchers Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris obtain a diary that may contain the key to the code, but when a fellow researcher is killed, they realize that the book contains a dangerous secret.
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The Thieves of Legend : A Thriller by Richard DoetschBlackmailed by a U.S. Army colonel to steal pieces of an ancient Chinese puzzle, reformed thief Michael St. Pierre and his ex-girlfriend, KC Ryan, confront the complex underworld of the Chinese triads, a twisted female assassin and a power-hungry madman.
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