Travis Devine is a former special ops soldier who now works as an agent for Homeland Security. His boss, agent Emerson Campbell, has called him in to investigate the death of Jennifer Silkwell, a CIA analyst. As well as its security implications the case is personal for Campbell who was Jennifer’s godfather and a close friend of her father, a former senator who is suffering from dementia.
Travis travels to Jennifer’s home town, Putnam, a small community on the coast of Maine and the place where she was found dead. For a small town Putnam has a lot of secrets which Travis has to unravel as his investigation probes into the lives of Jennifer’s family and of all those who knew her; and all the while it also seems possible that he is being followed by people in connection with an entirely separate matter in which he has been involved.
As characters are introduced into the story they quickly become true to life and easily identifiable, which is how I like my characters! Dialogue flows smoothly and the pounding waves and rocky coastline are terrifically atmospheric. Travis Devine is a strong, tough man who is used to physical violence but who also has a kind, empathetic side with hints that a not-perfect childhood has left him with an insight into the feelings of others and, in this case, to those of Jennifer’s surviving sister, Alex. The scenes between Travis and Alex are sensitive and real.
There are a lot of brilliant thriller writers around these days and David Baldacci is right up there with the best of them!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Published by Pan Macmillan
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