Book Review: To Die For by David Baldacci

Published in 2024. Thriller. Travis Devine, the 6:20 Man, works as an investigator for the Department of Homeland Security. He’s assigned a new mission in the Seattle area where a criminal kingpin, Danny Glass, is about to go on trial on RICO charges. However, several key witnesses have been murdered, so Devine is sent to investigate because he knew Glass when he was in the Army. After he arrives, he also learns that Glass is attempting to adopt his niece since both parents were murdered under suspicious circumstances. While the charges against Glass are pending, there’s no way to stop the adoption, unless Devine delves deeper into the parent’s murder case. By doing so, he reveals a threat to national security, even more pressing than Glass’s RICO case.

I like Travis Devine. He’s a good guy who wants to do the right thing for the country, for the people he loves, and for Betsy Odom, Glass’s twelve-year-old niece. So, when he finds a problem, he fixes it—in the right way. Although his main adversary started out to be Glass, it changes to The Girl on the Train, who had tried to kill him in Europe (previous book). His relationship with her also evolves as she becomes more involved in the case.

This was quite a long book, so it took me a while to read it. But I enjoyed it.