The Sixth Man
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4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
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Publisher Description
In the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller that inspired the TV series King & Maxwell, two private investigators dig into a killer's past--but when their search threatens powerful enemies, it could cost them their lives.
Edgar Roy--an alleged serial killer--is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed when Sean and Michelle find Bergin murdered.
It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? The more they dig into Roy's past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the outset of Baldacci's routine fifth thriller featuring ex Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell (after First Family), the pair, who now work together as private investigators, fly to Maine to meet Ted Bergin, King's old law professor. Bergin has hired King and Maxwell to assist in his defense of Edgar Roy, a U.S. government employee who's been indicted for murdering six people found buried on Roy's Virginia farm. Because for some reason it's a federal case, Roy is incarcerated at a Maine prison. Near their destination, the PIs stop to investigate a broken-down car on the side of the road. Inside is Bergin, who's been shot between the eyes. King and Maxwell probe deeper into the charges against Roy to find the professor's killer, with no help from Roy, who hasn't been talking since his arrest. A fast pace compensates only in part for a cartoonish villain a venal politician and a familiar Washington conspiracy plot.
Customer Reviews
Page turner
I hadn't read the previous books in this serious but I will now. It's a well written crime drama that keeps you turning the page. the "twist" at the end was a little predictable but in short it's a fun, easy reading, page turner and worth the purchase.
Hollow effort
The entire book never came together for me. The storyline was clear and crisply presented, but the characters - both main and ancillary - were presented narrowly and without a lot of color. Their motivation was rarely well understood: from the trooper who keeps sticking his neck out for no good reason to a knee-breaker turned good guy to a whiz-bang genius CEO who abruptly needs help formulating and executing the most basic of plans to a former spook with an endless Rolodex of friends and favors to call in, the interactions of the characters was lost in sporadic, halting plot development.
Baldacci does good work. This isn't one of them, though.
Fast moving page tuner
Couldn't put it down. One of his best.