David Baldacci: Hope Rises (UK 2026)

From the Publisher:
After becoming an FBI informant on a global operation headed up by master criminal Victoria Steers, everything Walter Nash held dear has been ripped away. The once-gentle and sensitive Nash has transformed himself into something he never thought he'd be. Lethal.

And now he has only one goal: taking down Steers.
In order to succeed, he's going to need to cross enemy lines, gain Steers' trust and join her inner circle. Nash must rely on every ounce of his hard-earned skill to prove himself an ally and get close enough to decimate her empire.

Yet, despite hating her, Nash finds himself oddly drawn to Steers in ways that he never could've imagined. And what he ultimately discovers will turn all he once believed upside down, forcing him to do something truly unfathomable.

So, will the truth set Nash free?
Or end him?

KILLER TWISTS.
HEROES TO BELIEVE IN.
TRUST BALDACCI.

David Baldacci: Hope Rises. Macmillan, ISBN: 9781035035380 (April, 2026), 430 p., £22.00, eBook £11.99.

David Baldacci: Hope Rises (USA 2026)

From the Publisher:
When Walter Nash is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a global crime network his life is turned completely upside down in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.

Walter Nash is a sensitive, intelligent and kindhearted man. He has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Despite never going on grand adventures, and always working too many hours, he has a happy and upscale life with his family.

However, following his estranged Vietnam-veteran father's funeral, Nash is unexpectedly approached by the FBI in the middle of the night. They have an important request: become their inside man to expose an enterprise that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. At the top of this illegal operation is Victoria Steers, an international criminal mastermind that the FBI has been trying to bring down for years.

Nash has little choice but to accept the FBI's demands and try to bring Steers and her partners to justice. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. And that forces Nash to take the ultimate step both to survive and to take his revenge: He must become the exact opposite of who he has always been.

And even that may not be enough.

David Baldacci: Hope Rises. A Novel. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781538758021 (April, 2026), 432 p., $32.00, eBook $14.99.