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[close] I am a huge David Baldacci fan although I like some of his series more than others. Loved the King and Maxwell series and was so disappointed when he ended it...but then Baldacci brought us Amos Decker and I have almost forgiven him. In the first book we met a devastated Amos Decker...ex cop...all star football player that had just discovered his entire family slaughtered and set the course to find and distribute justice to the person or persons responsible. A football head injury had given Amos a blessing or a curse depending on how you look at it...he NEVER forgets anything and he sees some numbers and words in brilliant colors. In book 2...

Amos is slowly pulling his life together and is on a special team formed by the FBI that will investigate not only cold cases but cases that seemed to be unfinished. Thus we meet Melvin Mars who is awaiting execution in Texas for the the murder of his parents. The case catches Amos's attention and the facts presented in the case just don't add up. From the time that Decker and the team meet Mars in the prison hospital the book takes so many different directions as the FBI team races back and forth from Texas to Alabama in search of the truth. All of the characters are very believable though some are not very likable. The story is riddled with surprise after surprise right up to the superlative ending. Keep up the good work here Mr. Baldacci.