FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"Relentlessly formulaic, but Puller is a strong enough protagonist to keep the pages turning."
In his 22nd, Baldacci (
The Sixth Man, 2011, etc.) introduces a soldier/sleuth who fights like Rambo and thinks like Holmes.
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FICTION
Released: June 14, 2011
"Baldacci's muscle-bound style doesn't do subtle: He is best at choreographing fight scenes, rescues and dire brushes with severe weather, all of which, thankfully, are here in abundance. Overall, though, the stilted language and trite sentimentalism are yawn-inducing."
Baldacci (
Hell's Corner, 2010, etc.) departs from thriller mode to pen this often-maudlin tale of familial reinvention.
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FICTION
Released: April 19, 2011
"Authentic scenario, mystery piled on misdirection and more double-crosses than a tic-tac-toe tournament."
To keep al-Qaeda zealots, megalomaniac North Koreans with nukes and other bad guys at bay, gigabytes of real-time intelligence stream to the Wall, there to be collated and conceptualized by one man, the Analyst.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 9, 2010
"Strap on your Glock. Grab an extra magazine of shells. There's danger and excitement lurking around this Corner."
The Russian mafia, the Mexican drug cartel, billions of dollars and bombs targeting presidents and prime ministers combine to entrap John Carr (aka Oliver Stone) and the Camel Club into another quick-paced adventure.
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FICTION
Released: April 20, 2010
"The characters are paper thin, the plot twists mostly telegraphed, but the betting here is that the Baldacci army will once again show the stuff it's made of. "
FICTION
Released: Oct. 27, 2009
"Gracelessly written, often implausible and inescapably pulpy, but also fast-paced and entertaining. "
Baldacci (
Divine Justice, 2008, etc.) presents a law-enforcement sister act, curtain-raiser for a new series that has every chance of keeping the pot boiling.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 4, 2008
"Tighter than the writer's most recent efforts, but far from spellbinding."
Baldacci (
The Whole Truth, 2008, etc.) moves his recurring Camel Club characters far enough offstage to let tough guy hero Oliver Stone take on a mean mountain town singlehandedly (for a while, at least) in something of the fashion of Lee Child's Jack Reacher.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 6, 2007
"Baldacci (Simple Genius, 2007, etc.) can do this stuff in his sleep now, but it's still entertaining enough."
Baldacci's recurring Camel Club uses its special talents to help a scam artist in distress.
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FICTION
Released: April 24, 2007
"Lamer than usual. Has the formula at last run thin enough to keep Baldacci off the bestseller list?"
Murders, kidnappings, international conspiracies, internecine warfare between alphabet agencies, mad scientists and, oh yes, buried treasure, as Baldacci pours it on.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 17, 2006
"A tepid follow-up to The Camel Club (2005), with few surprises."
Helped by a beautiful grifter, the "Camel Club"--the four-man band of conspiracy theorists--returns to battle a threat to national security.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 25, 2005
"Sure to be a bestseller, but the guy's phoning it in."
A lukewarm would-be potboiler of uninvolving intrigue about a kooky quartet of conspiracy theorists--one by the name of "Oliver Stone"--who witness the murder of a federal agent.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 30, 2003
"Assembly-line legal thriller: flat characters, lame scene-setting, and short but somehow interminable action: a lifeless concoction."
Two defrocked Secret Service Agents investigate the assassination of one presidential candidate and the kidnapping of another.
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