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 FBI shows up and the BPD brings the obese ex-cop in as a consultant. At the same time, a bloody school shooting takes place at his old stomping grounds, Mansfield High School, leaving many dead.
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. 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. The 42-year-old Decker is overweight and out-of-shape, but he was once a professional football player. 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 case still hasn't been solved, and in his grief and despair, Decker leaves the police department. Perennial bestseller Baldacci unveils an offbeat hero with an unusual skill set and tragic past who takes on the evil mastermind behind a devastating school shooting.Īmos 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.
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