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Nash Falls
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing
416 pages
These kinds of books are a guilty pleasure for me; while I often think that I should be reading literary or historical fiction, every once in a while I need a fast paced thriller. David Baldacci scratches that particular itch. It is also nice to get in at the beginning of a series.
In this new thriller series, we meet Walter Nash, a seemingly very normal man with a wife and a young adult daughter, who is a corporate executive at Sybaritic Investments. After the death of his father from whom he was estranged, Nash becomes involved in an FBI investigation that involves the company he works for and results in the disappearance of his daughter. As a result, Nash, who is being framed, transforms into a different person. This is as much as I can say without giving away too much plot.
As most other reviewers have stated, this book starts off slowly. Given that it is the first in a series, I suspect that Baldacci, was “stage setting,” telling readers what kind of man Walter Nash is and what his background was. I think that was appropriate. The pace picked up and I found myself compulsively reading so that I could find out what happened, a good feature in a thriller. What I don’t know is where this series is going to go. I don’t know if Nash’s wife will be part of the next one, or how or whether the author will continue to contrast the character he started out as with who he becomes by the end. Obviously, Baldacci will have to create another FBI type scenario but it is hard to imagine how he will be able to have the kind of character change that he had in this novel, since it was part of the plot. Nonetheless, I look forward to seeing where he goes in the next installment.
This book will engage readers who have liked Baldacci’s previous books and who want to get in on the ground floor of a new suspense/action series.
Four and a half stars.
All of the opinions here are my own. Thank you to NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for giving me the opportunity to read this book.
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