![]() ![]() A man he has convicted 13 years ago, who has a terminal disease ,claiming his innocence.īy helping this ex-convict, Amos Decker tries to atone his sins and face his inner demons. At his redemption place he sees a ghost from his past. ![]() This time Decker goes back to his hometown to honor the memories of his wife and daughter by visiting their graves. It was like living a nightmare over and over again. But also can be curse to remember your loved ones’ taking away from you. Remembering everything is a great gift for solving murders, handling loose ends by bringing back the images you stocked ( like unlocking your personal cloud which full of memories). This fast paced, smart, well developed, gripping crime thriller which brings back one of my favorite book characters, Amos Decker a.k.a. This is a highly intense, thrilling and entertaining read with a diverse cast of characters, showcasing Baldacci's considerable skills in writing nail biting thrillers. His protagonist, Decker, is an interesting and unusual character, trapped in past traumas with memories that will never fade away, he is slowly and surely being destroyed unless he can learn to shift direction and create stronger personal ties with his friends that roots him in the present rather than the past. Baldacci is an expert at drawing in the reader and keeping them hooked right up to the tense last pages of the novel. This is a fast paced, complex and compulsive thriller, well constructed, and packed with suspense and tension. Decker finds that old sins cast long shadows as he seeks redemption for his past errors as an inexperienced murder detective. He is joined and assisted by a familiar face and friend, Melvin Mars, a man who spent 20 years in prison and on death row in Texas, until Decker proved his innocence. Decker is having none of this, relentless in his pursuit of the truth. ![]() As Mary is forced to recuse herself when her husband, Earl, turns out to be the alibi of a possible suspect, Blake Natty is appointed to lead the case from the police end, and he and his superior, Pete Childress, are determined that Decker takes no further part in the case and leaves Ohio. Attempts are made on Decker's life, and in a blood drenched case, every lead he has ends up dying as the bodies start piling up. Indications that he is on the right path begin with the stone cold murder of Hawkins. Decker's original cop partner and friend, Mary Lancaster also has doubts about the original conviction.ĭecker cannot bear living with the possibility that he helped to destroy the life of an innocent man, as he commits to reworking this cold case. It was Decker's first murder investigation and the evidence against Hawkins appeared ironclad, but Hawkins proclaims his innocence, asking him to look again at the murders. Decker had led the investigation that convicted Hawkins of the murder of Don Richards and his 2 children and David Katz, who had dropped in to see Don. At Molly's grave, a man meets him that he doesn't recognise but he knows his name, Meryl Hawkins, now released from prison and dying of cancer. After earlier brain injuries, he has been gifted and cursed by hyperthesmia, which means he can forget nothing and synesthesia. This tragedy has driven Decker's fierce and implacable obsession to fight for justice. He is there to commemorate what would have been Molly's 14th birthday. Established by David and his wife, Michelle, the Wish You Well Foundation supports family and adult literacy programs in the United States.Ī lifelong Virginian, David is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia School of Law.ĭavid Baldacci's 5th in the Amos Decker series is a brilliant and compulsive thriller with Decker back home in Burlington, Ohio, where his wife, Cassie, daughter, Molly and brother in law, Johnny, died. In addition to being a prolific writer, David is a devoted philanthropist, and his greatest efforts are dedicated to his family’s Wish You Well Foundation®. David has also published seven novels for younger readers. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with 150 million copies sold worldwide. In total, David has published 46 novels for adults all have been national and international bestsellers, and several have been adapted for film and television. (Much later, when David thanked her for being the spark that ignited his writing career, she revealed that she’d given him the notebook to keep him quiet, "because every mom needs a break now and then.”)ĭavid published his first novel, Absolute Power, in 1996 the feature film adaptation followed, with Clint Eastwood as its director and star. David Baldacci has been writing since childhood, when his mother gave him a lined notebook in which to write down his stories.
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