review written and read live on the bookshow by Brian Lowen May 2016
Amos Decker was
a football player with a good future
until his career is abruptly terminated by a high speed collision with an
opposing player. He suffers severe concussion and damage to his brain and is
amazed to discover when he wakes up that he now has a photographic memory. He
cannot forget anything.
His football
career finished he becomes a detective and his amazing brain power helps him
with his work, solving crimes.
Then one day he
returns home from work to find that his wife, young daughter and brother-in-law
have all been brutally murdered. When he recovers from the shock he realises that
the murderer thought his brother-in-law was him and that the whole family had
been murdered.
He sets out to
find who carried out this terrible act and what the connection is between
similar murders that have been taking place. He is helped in his mission by his
sidekick, a female police sergeant, Lancaster and also later by an
investigative journalist, Alex Jamison who gives up her job in order to help
Decker.
They have to deal
with a man who is difficult to get on with as his brain injury has left
him without any social graces or manners.
A good thriller
from Baldacci, well written with good explanation of the type of person Decker
has become following his accident. I enjoyed the book, as I have with all the
other books I have read by this author.
It seems that this
book is the first in a series featuring Amos Decker and Lancaster so that will
be something to follow up.
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