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Travis Devine Goes Global: David Baldacci Sends the 6:20 Man to Australia in “All In”

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November 12, 2026

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David Baldacci at the 2015 National Book Festival. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The 6:20 Man is leaving American soil for the first time, and the trip nearly kills him.

David Baldacci’s All In, the fourth thriller in his 6:20 Man series, was published on November 10 by Grand Central Publishing. The 448-page hardcover takes former Army Ranger turned federal investigator Travis Devine out of the United States and into a storm of billion-dollar secrets and international power plays.

The story opens on a rain-swept Manhattan street, where fearless war correspondent Theresa Lee is shot and left for dead. The man she was meeting, Bill Walker, a legendary analyst for the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, vanishes without a trace, snatched by a professional hit team. Devine, who works for the Office of Special Projects, is called in to find out why.

The trail leads from New York’s glass-and-steel canyons to the glittering harbours of Australia and into the orbit of the Woolwine empire, a dynasty whose fortune makes it more powerful than some nations. Partnering with Anais Jones, a driven Sydney homicide detective, Devine uncovers a lethal convergence of rogue intelligence operations, Russian mobsters, compromised prisons and a quiet campaign to redraw the global balance of power, all fueled by weaponized data and manufactured truths.

Kirkus Reviews praised the novel ahead of publication, calling it “a satisfying thriller that will keep readers guessing.”

Baldacci, a #1 New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold in the hundreds of millions worldwide, launched the Travis Devine series in 2022 with The 6:20 Man, named for the commuter train Devine rode into New York each morning. Four books on, the series has become one of his signature franchises. With All In, the stakes have simply gone worldwide.

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Cathy Park Hong Crosses Into Fiction: Her Debut Novel “Furies” Sparks a Worldwide Deal

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November 12, 2026

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Cathy Park Hong rewrote the rules for the memoir with Minor Feelings. Now she is coming for the novel.

Publishers Marketplace reported on November 3 that Hong will make her fiction debut with Furies, in a deal that places the book with One World in North America and Hutchinson Heinemann in the United Kingdom, with further editions set for France (Phébus), Hungary (Agave Könyvek), Germany (DTV) and Italy (INN Editore), a worldwide launch for a first novel.

Furies follows a failed Korean American journalist who returns home to write about her mother. From that intimate starting point, the novel opens outward into a story of mothers and daughters that also sweeps in North Korean terrorists, abducted actresses, filmmakers and a film-obsessed dictator, exploring the borders between history, imagination, fact and memory.

Hong, a poet before she was anything else, published Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning in 2020 to enormous acclaim. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and it permanently changed the conversation about Asian American life in the United States with its blend of memoir, history and cultural criticism.

That track record is what makes Furies one of the most anticipated literary debuts on the horizon. Writers who can move between poetry, essay and now fiction with equal force are rare, and publishers on four continents have bet that Hong is one of them. The multi-country deal, struck before the book has even reached readers, signals the level of expectation building around it.

No publication date has been announced yet. When Furies arrives, it will carry the weight of a simple, exciting fact: one of the sharpest literary voices of her generation has a whole new form to work in.