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A kidnapping victim’s body surfaces halfway around the world.

In the fourth installment in the 6:20 Man series, Department of Homeland Security agent and former Army Ranger Travis Devine flies to Australia to help investigate a strange death. In New York City, a man and woman are attacked while in the middle of an argument. Criminals shoot the woman and whisk away the man, Bill Walker, in a van. Next thing you know, his bullet-ridden, shark-bitten corpse bobs to the surface in Sydney Harbour. The autopsy shows he’d been dying of cancer, and authorities learn he’d filed for divorce. But why? He’d been happily married to Australian billionaire Charlotte Woolwine. The U.S. is drawn to the case because of Walker’s connection to Five Eyes, the intelligence-gathering alliance of which Australia is a part. Once there, Travis teams up with DS Anais Jones to search for answers. Did one of the Woolwine family orchestrate the murder? While they dig, bad guys try to kidnap Travis, much to their misfortune. The story occasionally backtracks to recap Travis’ difficult relationship with his father, a thread that pervades the series. Travis went to West Point and into the Army, both of which made the old man furious. Why not work on Wall Street and get rich? Travis already tried that and succeeded but hated it. Now he works for Homeland Security and is forever on the cusp of danger, relying on his exceptional talents and capacity for violence to stay alive. “Let me be as clear as I can be,” Travis says. “My job is to find out who killed Bill Walker” and shot Theresa Lee, an investigative journalist. But there’s more—AI looms as a national security threat, and what’s an international thriller without Putin’s shadow? Baldacci skillfully ties all the complex plot elements together. Readers will find characters to root for and fret about in this tale of murder down under.

A satisfying thriller that will keep readers guessing.