Der Präsident /Die Wahrheit

Ein Mord direkt vor dem FBI-Hauptquartier - ein neuer Fall für den einzigartigen Memory ManWashington, D.C.: Mitten am helllichten Tag zieht ein Mann vor der FBI-Zentrale eine Beretta. Er erschießt zielgerichtet eine Passantin - und anschließend sich selbst. Der Mann ist ein absolut unbescholtener Mitbürger und Familienvater, sein Opfer eine sozial engagierte Hilfslehrerin. Und es scheint keinerlei Verbindung zwischen den beiden zu geben. Amos Decker, der Memory Man, beginnt zu ermitteln. Doch plötzlich will der militärische Nachrichtendienst den Fall übernehmen: Es ginge um die nationale Sicherheit. Ein Grund mehr für Amos Decker weiterzuforschen ...

Die Wahrheit kann tödlich sein ...Die ehemalige Polizistin Mickey Gibson macht inzwischen reiche Steuer- und Kreditbetrüger ausfindig. Als eine neue Kollegin sie bittet, persönlich ein Inventar von einem großen Anwesen zu erstellen, denkt Mickey sich nichts dabei. Doch kaum dort angekommen, findet sie in einem geheimen Zimmer die Leiche des Besitzers. Wie sich herausstellt, ist Mickey einer Betrügerin auf den Leim gegangen. Denn die Polizei verdächtigt sie, den Mann vergiftet zu haben. Aber wer hat sie so aufs Glatteis geführt? Bald ist Mickey gefangen in einem mörderischen Duell mit einer brillanten Frau ohne Namen. Aber ist die Unbekannte in diesem Spiel auf Leben und Tod wirklich Mickeys größter Feind?

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, a child is kidnapped at a presidential retreat and two former Secret Service agents must become private investigators in a desperate search that might destroy them both.<BR><BR>A daring kidnapping turns a children's birthday party at Camp David, the presidential retreat, into a national security nightmare.<BR><BR>Former Secret Service agents turned private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell don't want to get involved. But years ago Sean saved the First Lady's husband, then a senator, from political disaster. Now the president's wife presses Sean and Michelle into a desperate search to rescue a kidnapped child. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them-and the line between friend and foe impossible to define...or defend.

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.<BR><BR> "A tour de force." ―S. A. Cosby, bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed<BR><BR> Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism—until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with brutally killing an elderly wealthy white couple. Doubting his decision, Lee fears that his legal skills may not be enough to prevail in a case where the odds are already stacked against both him and his client. He quickly finds himself out of his depth when he realizes that what's at stake is far greater than the outcome of a murder trial.<BR><BR> Desiree DuBose is a Black lawyer from Chicago who has devoted her life to furthering the causes of justice and equality for all. She enters a fractious and unwieldy partnership with Lee in a legal battle against the best prosecutor in the Commonwealth. Yet DuBose is also aware that powerful outside forces are at work to blunt the victories achieved by the Civil Rights era.<BR><BR> Lee and DuBose could not be more dissimilar. On their own, neither one can stop the prosecution’s deliberate march towards a guilty verdict and the electric chair.<BR><BR> But together, the pair fight for what once seemed impossible: a chance for a fair trial and true justice.  Over a decade in the making, A Calamity of Souls breathes richly imagined and detailed life into a bygone era, taking the reader through a world that will seem both foreign and familiar.<BR><BR>"This is David Baldacci at his best. Using the law and the courtroom as the stage for a searing parable on race and the cost and courage to do the right thing." ―Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer<BR>