Author: David BaldacciCrime & mysteryPublished on 6 November 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Macmillan) in the United Kingdom.Hardback | 448 pages163 x 242 x 39 | 676g ‘Baldacci is the master’ – Jeffrey ArcherThe start of a pulse-pounding original series from international number one bestselling author David Baldacci.* * * * *Walter Nash is a mild-mannered, happy and successful businessman with a loving family. He has never lifted a weight or fired a gun in anger, and he has no special physical or investigatory skills. The dark world is not a place he knows – until the FBI comes calling on the very day of his estranged Vietnam veteran father’s funeral. They tell him that the company he works for is actually a criminal organization. And they need his help in a risky endeavour to bring it all down.In doing so, Nash’s perfect world is destroyed. And in seeking justice and revenge, Nash must become someone else: a man of violence and physicality who must find traction and purpose in the same dark world that invaded and crushed everything near and dear to him. Can Walter Nash reinvent himself into a weapon of righteousness and justice? The odds are not with him.But bet against Walter Nash at your peril . . .* * * * *KILLER TWISTS. HEROES TO BELIEVE IN. TRUST BALDACCI.‘One of the world’s thriller masters’ – Daily Mail‘Baldacci is still peerless’ – The Sunday Times'Wherever Baldacci chooses to take Nash next, readers would be well advised to follow' – Publishers' Weekly‘One of the all-time best thriller authors’ – Lisa Gardner‘Baldacci delivers, every time!’ – Lisa Scottoline‘A master storyteller’ – Associated Press‘Baldacci cuts everyone’s grass – Grisham’s, Ludlum’s, even Patricia Cornwell’s – and more than gets away with it’ – People
