The 6:20 Man
A Thriller
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4.1 • 301 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci.
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. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. 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. Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead.
Sara Ewes, Devine’s coworker and former girlfriend, has been found hanging in a storage room of his office building—presumably a suicide, at least for now—prompting the NYPD to come calling on him. If that wasn’t enough, before the day is out, 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. This treacherous role will take him 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. And apart from this high-stakes conspiracy, there’s a killer out there with their own agenda, and Devine is the bull’s-eye.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A troubled veteran is blackmailed into becoming a financial investigator in David Baldacci’s conspiracy-laced thriller. Former Army Ranger Travis Devine has left the military for a dreary job in finance. When the newly minted MBA’s co-worker and ex-girlfriend Sara Ewes dies, his tiresome routine is shattered—and he’s pulled into a high-stakes investigation of the firm where he hopes to make his fortune. With his usual skill, Baldacci makes the cutthroat world of Wall Street feel almost like a war zone. And watching Travis, a West Point grad, navigate such unfamiliar terrain in a suit and tie is both interesting and thrilling. As financial fraud gives way to international intrigue at the highest level, you’ll want to spend every waking moment reading The 6:20 Man.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Army veteran Travis Devine, the protagonist of this disappointing thriller from bestseller Baldacci (One Good Deed), had a distinguished career serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, but he quit under mysterious circumstances to join Cowl and Comely, a high-pressure Wall Street investment firm. Every weekday, he takes the 6:20 a.m. commuter train from the suburbs into Manhattan, where he toils until evening. His life's upended when he gets a text from an unknown person informing him that a colleague, Sara Ewes, whom he had a romantic interest in, was found hanging in a storage room in his office building. That death, which may not be the suicide it appears to be, triggers a cascade of dramatic developments. Devine becomes a murder suspect, others are killed, and he's tapped to conduct a covert investigation into Cowl and Comely by a Homeland Security official. Despite lip service paid to recent real-life revelations from leaked documents about U.S. companies' role in international money laundering, the implausible plot, in which the DHS official gives Devine no real guidance, makes it difficult for the reader to suspend disbelief. Baldacci has done better.
Customer Reviews
Weird ending
I like the short paragraphs. The Area 51 stuff not resolved so clearly a sequel coming.
Excellent read. Couldn’t put book down
This was an eye opener with reference to money laundering . I could not put the book down. Very well written and kept me in suspense all the way to the end. I hope there is a follow up to this book. This new character Travis sounds like he can finally get his redemption in the next book . I very much enjoyed reading this book. I did not want it to end. Thanks again David Baldacci for another exciting book. I have read every one of your books.