“A compelling puzzler…Baldacci is a truly gifted storyteller, and this novel is a perfect “fix” for the thriller aficionado.”― Associated Press on The Fix It’s a theme he has explored before, but it still has potency and relevance.”― Associated Press on The Fallen He demonstrates why these small towns are worth saving. …he takes on small-town America, capturing both good and bad elements. “Baldacci is a wonderful storyteller, and he incorporates wonderful characters into baffling conspiracies. “Decker is one of the most unusual detectives any novelist has dreamed up.” –Washington Post Buy product Only this time–when one mistake could cost him everything–Decker finds that his previously infallible memory may not be so trustworthy after all… And with the lives of people he cares about suddenly hanging in the balance, Decker begins to realize that the recent string of deaths may be only one small piece of a much larger scheme–with consequences that will reach far beyond Baronville.ĭecker, with his singular talents, may be the only one who can crack this bizarre case.

Then the next killing hits sickeningly close to home. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene. It’s a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Cryptic clues left at the scenes–obscure bible verses, odd symbols–have the police stumped.Īmos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex’s sister and her family. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Something sinister is going on in Baronville. And the fast-food places also did brisk business, fattening both the young and old to impossible degrees and foretelling diabetes, cancer, stroke and heart disease stats blowing right through the roof.The closer Amos Decker comes to the truth, the deadlier it gets in David Baldacci’s latest #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man thriller. From what Decker had seen, the two most popular food items purchased there were Hamburger Helper by the kilo and sugary orange pop by the barrel. There were two grocery store chains here. Now, with all the manufacturing outsourced overseas, the only thing one could build here was misery. The story is played out in a depressed post-industrial city that once '(built) what America and the rest of the world needed. Some people can't go back? I really can't go forward.'

It's like a picture that never ever fades. They are as vivid today as the day it happened.

Baldacci weaves the personal story of Amos' hellish existence - unable to control the replaying of the worst moments in his life - with a terrific mystery plot.Īt one point, Amos explains his situation to a journalist, 'For me time does not heal, because my mind no longer allows for the passage of time to dull my memories.

Memory man series