His particular skills at hacking and correlating seemingly disparate, unrelated information are invaluable to their work, and Roy is more than happy to help them whenever he can despite occasionally putting his official job in jeopardy. King and Maxwell have stayed in touch with this remarkable, albeit quirky genius. We met Edgar Roy in the previous book, The Sixth Man. No matter the risks, they aren’t deterred from their quest to clear Sam’s name and get him and Tyler to safety. After some negotiation and being threatened by various government and government adjacent thugs, King, Maxwell, their client Tyler Wingo, his father Sam, and a couple of innocent bystanders are in grave danger. The trouble is that Sam Wingo is very much alive, and he’s a hunted man though it takes a while to determine that this is the case. He’s been informed that his father, Sam Wingo, was killed in combat in Afghanistan. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are looking to get back to a more normal, less life-threatening routine when they come upon a teenager running through the woods with a gun in a vicious storm. The last three books of the series, First Family, The Sixth Man, and King and Maxwell are closely coupled, each picking up where the last one leaves off. King and Maxwell is the sixth and final book in David Baldacci’s King & Maxwell series, and it doesn’t disappoint.
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