THE NEW MEMORY MAN NOVEL!
Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.
Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team can find absolutely no connection between the shooter--a family man with a successful consulting business--and his victim, a schoolteacher. Nor is there a hint of any possible motive for the attack.
Enter Harper Brown. An agent of the Defense Intelligence Agency, she orders Decker to back off the case. The murder is part of an open DIA investigation, one so classified that Decker and his team aren't cleared for it.
But they learn that the DIA believes solving the murder is now a matter of urgent national security. Critical information may have been leaked to a hostile government--or worse, an international terrorist group--and an attack may be imminent.
Decker's never been one to follow the rules, especially with the stakes so high. Forced into an uneasy alliance with Agent Brown, Decker remains laser focused on only one goal: solving the case before it's too late.
The Fix -David Baldacci
This is a very good entry in a great series. I just wish that the series remained as good
as the first book had been. This series
still has potential so I am not going to give up on it.
I really recommend that you read at least the first book in
this series before you tackle this one---in fact since there are only three
books I would say go for reading both earlier books before reading this
one. HOWEVER, you don’t HAVE to read the
earlier books to get into this one – it will just make it easier on you to understand
Amos Decker’s quirks and fantastical ability.
This book is total mystery with a slight dash of fantasy
thrown in. A theft of our Countries secrets, spying, hacking, espionage, Russia-
Middle East, murder and a story line a little too close to home/the truth for
my taste! In the first book, we find how Amos came to have his ‘abilities’ and
he goes from a cardboard box living, shell of a man, to this book where he is a
successful part of a team that is part of the FBI and making friends. (with the
possibility of a girl-friend I think!)
What slightly bothered me about this book is the fact that
it (in my opinion of course) could have lost about one hundred pages of dead-horse
beating, repetitive conversation that I am sure if you are in the business of
crime fighting, is important but for the average reader is just annoying. I needed a tad more action and a tad less
wash-rinse-repeat.
There is also one brief story-line and action sequence that
I don’t see how it made the main story move forward -but perhaps this was a
set-up for a future story-line.
Not a bad book at all, but not my favorite by far.
ARC supplied by author and publisher.
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