Review: The 6:20 Man

The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Not sure if I've read any Baldacci before but have wanted to so picked this one up because of its setting rather than anything else. Nothing like a commuter train into the City at an ungodly hour in the morning. Hopefully, not too many of the riders are former Army Rangers who are working in Wall St as a self imposed penance for an act not particularly becoming for an Officer and a Gentleman. More logically than Sex and the City or Friends, Travis Devine, is sharing a townhouse in Mt Kisco rather than a Manhattan roomy apartment and his salary barely covers the rent, food and train fare so his social life is not very exciting.

With the death of an office colleague with whom he had a one night stand, that rather mundane life is going to get much more stimulating. He has received a rather strange email telling him of the woman's death. No one else has gotten such a personal notification and the sender's address is strange looking. Next thing he knows Travis is being personally approached by detectives at his station in Mt Kisco, their interest in him rather intense. Do they suspect him of her murder?

Before long he is further approached by someone who appears to be a Fed and knows all about Travis' military history. Threatened with prosecution and probable jail sentence, Travis agrees to get some information about the financial institution where he and the deceased worked together as analysts. The the background info he uncovers is convoluted and confusing and the deaths keep mounting up. What is going on and how is he going to keep himself from being among the dead?

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