Hope Rises
4.5 | 656 ratings
Price: 14.99
Last update: 04-28-2026
Product details
- ASIN : B0FL137HPV
- Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
- Accessibility :
- Publication date : April 14, 2026
- Language : English
- File size : 1.3 MB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 430 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1538758052
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Book 2 of 2 : Walter Nash
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- Customer Reviews:4.14.1 out of 5 stars(37)
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- William R. Hickshope rises by david baldaccithis will be a great read. thanks
- dianetbA satisfying thrill ride!???? BOOK REVIEW ????
Hope Rises (Walter Nash, Book 2) by David Baldacci
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / Pages: 430
Genre: Thriller
Audiobook Narrators: MacLeod Andrews, Will Collyer, Shiromi Arserio, Christine Lakin, Larry Herron, Tim Lounibos
Duration: 12 hours 29 minutes
Release Date: April 14, 2026
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Boring, number-crunching Walter Nash has been transformed into Dillon Hope, a tough, tatted bodyguard. Totally focused on avenging his daughter’s murder, Hope ingratiates himself into the very criminal organization that killed his daughter with the goal of bringing it down. Soon he becomes the most trusted resource of the head of the organization, Victoria Steers. But as he gets to know more about this woman who destroyed his life, he disgusts himself by developing feelings for her.
I definitely recommend reading the first book, Nash Falls, before reading this one to get Nash/Hope’s full backstory. This book picks right up where that one left off, concluding his storyline and offering the backstory behind Victoria Steers. While this one is action-packed and finishes all the lingering questions left by the first book, I enjoyed the whole transformation story more in the first book. But together, this duology made for a very satisfying and thrilling ride.
The audiobook was especially enjoyable as it’s narrated by a full cast—with the female characters read by female voices and the male characters read by male voices. My favorite!
Thank you, @DavidBaldacciAuthor, @GrandCentralPub, and @HachetteAudio, for the free book and audiobook. - Monnie RyanTransformation CompleteAny book series, I’ve long maintained, is best enjoyed from the beginning. No matter how well the author provides sufficient information from the previous book(s) to make the current one completely understandable, readers still stand to miss a lot of the backstory that makes the current book more enjoyable. This is a case in point, perhaps more so than others; yes, it stands alone well, but since I’d read its predecessor (Nash Falls) fairly recently, I’m sure I enjoyed it a bit more for having read it. That said, I loved this one and am looking forward to the next installment to see if a couple of things sort of left hanging here get picked up again.
For those who missed the first one, Walter Nash spent most of his adult years as a Clark Kent of the business world – happy with his job, his wife Judith and their daughter Maggie. Then one day the world as he knew it crashed right before his eyes – with not the least of the issues being his wife having an affair with his uber-wealthy boss, Rhett Temple. The end result was that Walter necessarily transformed himself into a Superman, with help from his friend Shock – perhaps the only man in the world he really trusts, becoming a lean, mean fighting machine totally unrecognizable to those he knew in the past. He adopts a new name as well – he’s now known as Dillon Hope.
And he’s laser-focused on a single task: taking out crime queen Victoria Steers, who took away his primary reason for living – and not far down his list is his former boss. But Victoria, too, has an axe to grind; it was Dillon who became an FBI informant against her and her very powerful crime organization. And, she’s no slouch in the fighting machine department; she’s an expert in several forms of lethal combat. Should the twain ever meet, it’s a toss-up as to who would emerge “Victori”ous.
And then it happens: Dillon is called to meet with Victoria’s emissary, who relays to him that the dragon lady, who has heard of his formidable skills, wants to meet up. Dillon agrees, knowing that his new physique and “look” makes him unrecognizable as the Walter Nash she’s so eager to kill. Happily for him, he’s right; turns out she suspects nothing and wants him to spring her mother, the formidable woman who built the criminal empire Victoria now runs, out of a high-security, secluded prison in Myanmar – a virtual impossibility, but Victoria claims she has a plan. If he fails, it’s almost certain he’ll die in the process. Even if he survives and accomplishes his assignment, though, given Victoria’s devious ways there’s no guarantee she’ll let him live to see another day.
But since his conversion to a whole new man, Dillon is used to uncertainty – so off he goes. And it’s here that I sign off as well – I can’t reveal more without spoiling the anticipation for other readers. I’ll just say it’s exciting and edge-of-seat action to the end and I thank the publisher, via NetGalley, for allowing me to take it all in by way of a pre-release copy. Terrific series! - Bill ElstonDon’t waste your money on this one.Clearly not one of Baldacci’s best books. Lots of redundancy, chapter after chapter. Could have easily made this in half the number of chapters. Maybe he just needed the money, I wasted the $14 on this one. Lots of other, early books were much better.
- William de RhamGood sequel to "Nash Falls."David Baldacci’s “Hope Rises” is the sequel to “Nash Falls.” The promotional materials describe the book well.
Mr. Baldacci has given us a very entertaining thriller with interesting, even complex characters and an intriguing plot with lots of twists and turns. There’s not a lot of sex or violence. Mostly, it’s a chess game amidst a hall of mirrors where everything and anything can be “not as it seems.” There are times when the writing falls down a little and/or crosses the line into the melodramatic. But that didn’t keep me from eagerly turning the pages to see what happened next.
And, while “Nash Falls” had a cliffhanger ending, leaving many questions unanswered, “Hope Rises” resolves all the plot and subplot lines developed in both novels.
I do recommend reading “Nash Falls” first, and going on to “Hope Rises” pretty quickly thereafter. I read “Nash Falls” about five months ago and, while reading “Hope Rises,” did have some trouble remembering what had happened in the previous volume.
My thanks to NetGalley, author David Baldacci, and publisher Grand Central Publishing for providing me with a complimentary electronic ARC. All of the foregoing is my honest, independent opinion.