

Could this increasingly deadly case be the one that leaves the duo permanently parted? On the way to the meeting, King and Maxwell discover his dead body.Īs King and Maxwell dig into Roy’s past, the more they are bombarded with obstacles, half-truths and dead ends that make filtering the facts from fiction nearly impossible.Ī rush of terrifying events unfold that will push King and Maxwell to the limit. Roy’s lawyer – and King’s former mentor – calls on the pair of former Secret Service agents to look into the case. The government’s uniquely talented, top-tier intelligence analyst, Edgar Roy, is arrested for mass murder and locked away in a psychiatric unit.

In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.The fifth book in the heart-stopping King and Maxwell series, The Sixth Man by David Baldacci will keep pulses racing as Sean King and Michelle Maxwell face their next great challenge. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. But the more they dig into Roy's past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? With help from some surprising allies, they continue to pursue the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins-en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Sean and Michelle find him murdered. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. (ET/PT) After the #1 New York Times bestsellers Split Second, Hour Game, Simple Genius, and First Family, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind.THE SIXTH MANEdgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. Watch King & Maxwell, TNT's new series based on David Baldacci's blockbuster novels, on Mondays at 10 p.m.
