David Baldacci (born August 5, 1960[1] in Richmond, Virginia) is a bestselling American novelist. Baldacci received a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. As a student, Baldacci wrote short stories in his spare time, and later practiced law for nine years near Washington, D.C. In 1996, his first novel Absolute Power was published and became an immediate best seller. It tells the story of a fictional American President and his Secret Service agents who are willing to murder people in order to cover up the accidental death of a woman with whom the President was having an affair. It was made into a film, Absolute Power (1997), starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman. Baldacci has gone on to publish twenty more novels: Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth, Saving Faith, Wish You Well, Last Man Standing, The Christmas Train, Split Second,Hour Game, The Camel Club, The Collectors, Simple Genius, Stone Cold, The Whole Truth, Divine Justice, True Blue, Deliver Us From Evil, Hell's Corner, and his latest King and Maxwell thriller, The Sixth Man. His new novel Zero Day which is coming out in December features Special Agent John Muller for the first time. His Works are as Follows :  The Camel Club  The Collectors  Stone Cold  Divine Justice  Hell's Corner  Split Second  Hour Game  Simple Genius  First Family  The Sixth Man  The Whole Truth  Deliver Us From Evil  Zero Day  Absolute Power  Total Control  The Winner  The Simple Truth  Saving Faith  Wish You Well  Last Man Standing  The Christmas Train  True Blue  One Summer .