Book info

• Title Nash Falls
• Author David Baldacci
• Year 2025
• Genre Thriller

Walter Nash is a mild-mannered, happy and successful businessman with a loving family. He has never lifted a weight or fired a gun in anger, and he has no special physical or investigatory skills. The dark world is not a place he knows – until the FBI comes calling on the very day of his estranged Vietnam veteran father’s funeral. They tell him that the company he works for is actually a criminal organization. And they need his help in a risky endeavour to bring it all down. In doing so, Nash’s perfect world is destroyed. And in seeking justice and revenge, Nash must become someone else: a man of violence and physicality who must find traction and purpose in the same dark world that invaded and crushed everything near and dear to him. Can Walter Nash reinvent himself into a weapon of righteousness and justice? The odds are not with him. But bet against Walter Nash at your peril...

Thoughts

I wasn’t sure about this one to start with but gradually, I really came to love it. It’s like an origin story and so nice to read about a character who is just, basically, normal to start with and what he undergoes to then become the fit fighter that is usually the protagonist of a Baldacci novel. There are horrors underneath it all, of course, but I really enjoyed the journey - it’s definitely part one of at least a two part series, but it builds everything up really nicely to lead into the second.

Rating: 5 / 5