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The Sixth Man

The Sixth Man

Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

Edgar Roy, a gifted government intelligence analyst, has been locked away in a psychiatric unit and charged with mass murder — and his attorney, Sean King's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, has asked Sean and Michelle Maxwell to help build his defense. Before the pair can properly start, Bergin turns up dead, and in David Baldacci's The Sixth Man (2011), the fifth novel in the King & Maxwell series, the question of Roy's guilt becomes inseparable from the question of who silenced the one man defending him.

King and Maxwell's digging into Roy's past sends them past a string of dead ends and half-truths toward the government's most closely guarded secrets, and toward people determined to make sure the truth stays buried — whatever it costs the two investigators personally.

About the author

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David Baldacci

David Baldacci is an American thriller writer born August 5, 1960, in Richmond, Virginia. He earned a B.A. in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, then practiced law in Washington, D.C. for nine years before his 1996 debut novel, Absolute Power, became an international bestseller. He has since published more than 40 novels, including the Amos Decker, Camel Club, and King and Maxwell series, and co-founded the Wish You W...