David Baldacci: The real crimes which inspired his fiction

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David Baldacci was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1960. What was it like growing up amidst the legacy of the Jim Crow laws? How did becoming a Washington lawyer finesse his storytelling skills? And how did he write his breakout debut Absolute Power while working 90-hour weeks as a litigator?

David has written more than 60 books in the last three decades and has become one of the world’s best-selling crime-writers.

His latest novel, Hope Rises, is the second part of David’s Walter Nash series. It tells how an everyday businessman seeks revenge after being plunged into the dark world of organised crime and security agencies.

In this conversation we speak about David’s inspiration from true crime, his literary heroes… and about his hometown hotel which had alligators in the reception.

You can learn more about David here: https://www.davidbaldacci.com/

You can grab a copy of Hope Rises here in the UK.

And here in the USA.

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