This book is BANANAS. So many over the top scenarios and ultra convenient plot devices. There is simply too much happening in this story: financial crimes, murder, National security issues, scorned lovers, Jeffrey Epstein style prison death, murder-for-hire, murder in-the-heat-of-the-moment, computer hacking... it's a Bingo board of thriller plots.

Devine is a former Army Ranger, which apparently makes him excellent at * checks notes * investigating global financial conspiracies and multiple homicides while defending himself from armed assassins. When he's not emulating Jack Reacher, he's a super nice roommate to 3 people, and spends his free time falling in love with half of the female characters in the book. Also, the women fall in love with him, even when they're in a committed relationship with another woman. He lives in New York, where apparently everyone in the medical profession is unfamiliar with patient privacy, and every doctor, nurse, nursing home employee is more than happy to give confidential details about a person (living or dead) to someone who simply self-identifies as a "friend." Speaking of medical confidentiality, would the NYPD really know if someone had a medicated abortion 6 months before they died?!? At what point in a homicide investigation do the abortion clinic medical records get opened up? All of this... and a central mystery in the plot NEVER gets resolved!

People like to disparage the Romance genre for predictable tropes and being too convenient, but this book is FULL of the mystery/thriller version of contrived "romance reasons" (would the counter-intelligence version be "spy stuff" or "detective devices"). 

The only reason I made it through this mess was because of the audio book. I would listen to Zachary Webber read the phone book, and honestly, it would've been a more enjoyable read than the  6:20 man.