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Orlagh Cassidy began her career at age 14 working at The Shakespeare Theatre at The Folger in Washington DC. She has performed on Broadway many times, including a lead role in Noel Cowards’s Present Laughter with Frank Langella as well as covering Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis in the production of Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage. She is the award winning voice of many audiobooks as well as television and radio commercials.
Ron McLarty began his career in theatre during the early 1970s. Although he enjoyed a successful career as an actor, he didn't have much luck finding a publisher for his novel The Memory of Running, until Stephen King happened upon an audiobook version (narrated by McLarty himself), and praised it as 'the best book you can't read'. This led to the book's publication, and its rapid rise to bestseller status. McLarty is an accomplished narrator – besides Running, he has provided the narration for a number of audiobooks, including Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Decision Points by George W. Bush. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Amos Decker would forever remember all three of their violent deaths in the most paralyzing shade of blue. It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light. He would never be free from it.
When Amos Decker returned home sixteen months ago to find the bodies of his wife and only daughter, he didn't think he could carry on living. Overwhelmed with grief, he saw his life spiral out of control, losing his job as a detective, his house and his self-respect. But when his former partner in the police, Mary Lancaster, visits to tell him that someone has confessed to the murder of his family, he knows he owes it to his wife and child to seek justice for them.
As Decker comes to terms with the news, tragedy strikes at the local school. Teenagers are gunned down, and the killer is at large. Following the serious brain injury Amos suffered as a professional footballer, he gained a remarkable gift - and the police believe that this unusual skill will assist in the hunt for the killer.
Amos must endure the memories he would rather forget, and when new evidence links the murders, he is left with only one option.
Memory Man will stay with you long after the turn of the final page.
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- ASIN : B00TJ760MM
- Publisher : Macmillan; Air Iri OME edition (1 May 2015)
- Language : English
- File size : 846 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 391 pages
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The storyline was well paced and the additional characters interesting and well drawn, and it was good to see that there is a cleverly rounded storyline that will link Amos and a couple of the other main characters into the follow-up book.
I could certainly recommend this to anyone who isn't familiar with Baldacci's work and I will certainly give one of his other series of books a closer look as well.



Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 August 2017


In really is a 3.5 book, and I will give my reasons in this review...
I love David Baldacci's Will Robie and John Puller, and now Atlee Pine...
Amos Decker is a different pace of character, a man who thinks things through in fact a lot of thinking.
I do understand fully that this is a first in a series so a new character has to be introduced to the reader, and there is a lot to know about Decker and there is a lot to learn and understand.
The first half of this book was very slow, but speeds up for the second half, assisted by some great characters that I did like Bogart, Mary Lancaster and
Amos Decker went off the rails 15 months ago when the Burlington police detective returned home from his shift to find someone had cut his brother-in-law’s throat, shot his wife, Cassie, in the head, and strangled his 9-year-old daughter, Molly. The case still hasn't been solved, and in his grief and despair, Decker leaves the police department. After a bout with homelessness, he settles in as a small-time private investigator operating out of the hotel room in which he also lives. The 42-year-old Decker is overweight and out-of-shape, but he was once a professional football player. During his time in the NFL, he took a hard hit, and the traumatic brain injury induced a rare condition known as hyperthymesia—he can’t forget any detail about anything he experiences.
When his former partner, Mary Lancaster, tells him a man named Sebastian Leopold has confessed to killing his family, Decker lies his way into the jail to see the guy. At the same time, a bloody school shooting takes place at his old stomping grounds, Mansfield High School, leaving many dead. The FBI shows up and the BPD brings the obese ex-cop in as a consultant. But could everything be connected?
Once Decker starts unraveling the threads, it begins to look like it, and soon he’s following trails that no one but he can see, much less interpret. The killer’s motive seems tenuous, at best, and the killer’s trail is difficult to follow, but Decker, who has no discernible social skills and a tendency to abruptly disappear, proves a quirky, original antihero with a definite method to his madness.
A strong and complex story, with lots of twists and turns, good characters but a crime thriller rather than an action thriller, my favourite genre.
Just a different pace of book, not so action packed as a usual Badacci book, but an interesting character. But took a lot to get into this book, especially the first half of the book.
But I am sure this series will get better.
