David Baldacci
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With a backgfound in financial leadership, Harlan Kleiman has consulting experience with Medical Management Systems, Inc., and is currently engaged in creating a company that will enable Medicare and Medicaid patients to arrange home care. Harlan Kleiman is an avid reader who particularly enjoys thrillers by authors such as Harlan Coben and David Baldacci.
The latter author recently published his 33rd novel, the fourth in the Special Agent John Puller series. No Man’s Land features a combat-veteran-turned-special-investigator whose mother disappeared three decades ago when he was a boy. Now, his father–a former general suffering from dementia–is accused in the murder of his late wife.
Interviewed about the new book by Entertainment Weekly, David Baldacci revealed that he was a major fan of The Three Investigators series and Alfred Hitchcock as a boy and took inspiration from Truman Capote’s true crime classic “In Cold Blood” as an aspiring author. He is also a major fan of the classic British Hercule Poirot series, which starred David Suchet as Agatha Christie’s overweening detective. He admires John Nettles as one of a handful of detectives on television who isn’t “drunk and divorced.”
Beyond the crime genre, Baldacci has been a fan of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance since his undergraduate days as a political science major. He also values Bill Bryson’s Down Under in a Sunburned Country for its unique ability to make him laugh and cry.
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