Bestselling author David Baldacci talks '6:20 Man' series, Canton event and Netflix shows with writer Ed Balint from the Canton Repository:
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.
So he asked a friend who worked in the national security realm if he would read five pages, "and tell me if I've gone too far...and whether I needed to pull it back or not."
The friend firmly refused to read the draft pages, Baldacci recalled. "He said, 'If you've imagined it, we've already done it.'"
"Now that was chilling," the author said with laughter. "So I've felt liberated since then. I could write about anything. And truth is always stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense. Truth by default doesn't have to make sense − it happens."
Baldacci hasn't toned down his approach since he was given that advice, pushing the boundaries of his imagination in the new book, "To Die For," part of the "The 6:20 Man" series and scheduled for release on Nov. 12.
Baldacci will be promoting the novel when he speaks at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Canton Palace Theatre as part of Stark Library's "Speaking of Books Author Series." Attending the event is free, but no more seats are available.
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