And apart from this high-stakes conspiracy, there’s a killer out there with their own agenda, and Devine is the bullseye.ĭavid Baldacci has been writing since childhood, when his mother gave him a lined notebook in which to write down his stories.

This treacherous role will take Travis from the impossibly glittering lives he once saw only through a train window, to the darkest corners of the country’s economic halls of power…where something rotten lurks. If that wasn’t enough, Devine receives another ominous visit, a confrontation that threatens to dredge up grim secrets from his past in the Army unless he participates in a clandestine investigation into his firm. Sara Ewes, Devine’s coworker and former girlfriend, has been found hanging in a storage room of his office building-presumably a suicide, prompting the NYPD to come calling on him.

Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. The Sixth Man is followed by the sixth and final book in the King and Maxwell series, King and Maxwell.Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. Could this increasingly deadly case be the one that leaves the duo permanently parted?

On the way to the meeting, King and Maxwell discover his dead body.Īs King and Maxwell dig into Roy's past, the more they are bombarded with obstacles, half-truths and dead ends that make filtering the facts from fiction nearly impossible.Ī rush of terrifying events unfold that will push King and Maxwell to the limit. Roy's lawyer - and King's former mentor - calls on the pair of former Secret Service agents to look into the case. The government's uniquely talented, top-tier intelligence analyst, Edgar Roy, is arrested for mass murder and locked away in a psychiatric unit. The fifth book in the heart-stopping King and Maxwell series, The Sixth Man by David Baldacci will keep pulses racing as Sean King and Michelle Maxwell face their next great challenge.

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