Nash Falls (2025) is surprisingly good.

Part 1 of an intriguing story. I’m looking forward to the sequel to be published 2026.

I’ve always considered Baldacci to be a lightweight pop fiction writer, cranking them out. BUT his recent books have been much more serious writing.

Walter Nash is a happy, wealthy, boring business executive.

However, following his estranged Vietnam-veteran father’s funeral, Nash is unexpectedly approached by the FBI in the middle of the night.

They have an important request: become their inside man to expose an enterprise that is laundering large sums of money ….

At the top of this illegal operation is Victoria Steers, an international criminal mastermind that the FBI has been trying to bring down for years.

Nash has little choice but to accept the FBI’s demands …

But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. And that forces Nash to take the ultimate step both to survive and to take his revenge: He must become the exact opposite of who he has always been.