David Baldacci may be one of the world’s best-selling authors, but he’s a lousy party guest. “I was at a party and somebody ...

Bestselling author David Baldacci once worried that a plot for one of his government thrillers might be too over the top. "I thought I had just jumped the shark and I had gone too far," he said.

Casting the president of the United States as a crazed villain isn't a new idea--Fletcher Knebel worked it 30 years ago, in Night of Camp David--but in this sizzler of a first novel, Baldacci ...