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I’ve been reading author David Baldacci for about 20 years now, and I look forward to his annual or semiannual new book releases. Baldacci has developed many book series over the years, along with some standalone one-off books.

Nash Falls (2025, Hatchette Book Group) is about wealth acquisitions executive Walter Nash, who finds himself operating in a dangerous, high-stakes world of money laundering and murder, with the stakes including his life, as well as his family. For a highly successful and smart man, there’s a lot going on that he’s been deliberately shielded from, including his wife having an affair with his boss, who Nash discovers up to his cocaine nose in large-scale money laundering, and the murder of FBI informants. That’s where this thriller begins.

Nash Falls is a very engrossing read, from the first to the last page. I was unaware that this story is continued to the next book, arriving next March. Sorry if Ives ruined that for some of you, but Baldacci has constructed a rather epic story, where no one is safe. The character of Walter Nash undergoes an incredible evolution during this story, while it may strain credibility, stay with it.

I’m looking forward to the continuation of the Nash story.