David Baldacci is the national and international bestseller of 40 novels for adults. They are published in over 45 languages, in more than 80 countries, with 150 million copies sold worldwide. He has also published seven novels for young readers.
Baldacci published his first novel, Absolute Power, in 1996 and was adapted into a feature film with Clint Eastwood as both its director and star.
His newest novel, Simply Lies, is a twisting psychological thriller in which two women—one a former detective, the other a dangerous con artist—go head-to-head in an electrifying game of cat and mouse.
Baldacci started writing as a child, when he would write his stories in a lined notebook his mother gave him. It was only later he learned that she had given him the notebook as a way to keep him quiet, “because every mom needs a break now and then.”
Before becoming a fulltime writer, he worked as an attorney in Washington D.C. He practiced law for nine years after earning his undergraduate degree at Virginia Commonwealth University and then his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
He wrote his first novel over the course of 3 years while practicing law.
Baldacci was born in 1960 in Richmond, Virginia and has been a lifelong Virginian. He and his wife, Michelle, live in Fairfax, Virginia and are active philanthropists. Together they founded the Wish You Well Foundation®, which supports family and adult literacy in the United States. In 2008 the Foundation partnered with Feeding America to launch Feeding Body & Mind, a program which collects used books and distributes them to food banks. Through Feeding Body & Mind, more than 1 million new and gently used books have been collected and distributed through food banks to families in need.
You can find a signed copy of Mercy and a collection of other David Baldacci signed books below.
David Baldacci is the national and international bestseller of 40 novels for adults. They are published in over 45 languages, in more than 80 countries, with 150 million copies sold worldwide. He has also published seven novels for young readers. 
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