The last mile

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Title:

The last mile

Author:

Baldacci, David, author.

Series:

Amos Decker ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is granted a reprieve from execution for the killing of his parents 20 years ago. Another man has confessed. Amos Decker, newly hired on a an FBI special task force, wonder if the confessor is telling the truth. Who wants Mars out of prison? And why now? Second in the series featuring investigator Amos Decker, the man unable to forget anything.

General Note:

Compact discs.

Edition:

Unabridged.

Physical Description:

10 sound discs (12 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 downloadable CD.

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

Audiobooks.

Corporate Subject:

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Decker, Amos (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Government investigators -- Fiction.

Death row inmates -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Hachette Book Group, USA,

Publication Date:

2016

ISBN:

9781478930006

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Hachette Book Group, USA, 2016.

Call Number:

CDB BALDACC

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Summary

When a convicted killer is saved by another man's confession, Amos Decker, now an FBI special task force detective, must find the truth in this "utterly absorbing" #1 New York Times bestseller (Associated Press).

Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution--for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier--when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime.

Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars's case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short by tragedy. Both men's families were brutally murdered. And in both cases, another suspect came forward, years after the killing, to confess to the crime. A suspect who may or may not have been telling the truth.

The confession has the potential to make Melvin Mars--guilty or not--a free man. Who wants Mars out of prison? And why now?

But when a member of Decker's team disappears, it becomes clear that something much larger--and more sinister--than just one convicted criminal's life hangs in the balance. Decker will need all of his extraordinary brainpower to stop an innocent man from being executed.

Author Notes

David Baldacci was born in Richmond, Virginia on August 5, 1960. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia. He practiced law in Washington D.C. as a trial and corporate lawyer.

His first novel, Absolute Power, was published in 1996. It won Britain's prestigious W.H. Smith's Thumping Good Read award for fiction in 1997 and was adapted as a movie starring Clint Eastwood. His other works include Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth, Saving Faith, True Blue, One Summer and End Game. He writes numerous series including King and Maxwell, Freddy and the French Fries, the Camel Club, Will Robie, Shaw and Katie James, John Puller, Vega Jane, and Amos Decker. He also published a novella entitled Office Hours and has authored five original screenplays.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In bestseller Baldacci's so-so sequel to 2015's Memory Man, the FBI persuades Amos Decker-a former professional football player, whose career-ending injury left him with some unusual abilities, including an almost perfect memory-to join a new unit that combines special agents and "civilians with special skills" to reopen select cold cases. Decker advocates for a case that appears resolved. Former college football standout Melvin Mars is reprieved minutes from his execution after another convict on death row, Charles Montgomery, confesses to murdering Mars's parents in their Texas home more than 20 years earlier. Decker feels an affinity for Mars, since the two played against each other once, and Decker also lost family members to a killer. His strong feelings prevail, and his unit looks into whether Montgomery is being truthful and why he waited so long to come forward. Despite his extra brain power, Decker doesn't leave much of an impression. This entry will work best for readers with a taste for improbable resolutions. Agent: Aaron Priest, Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Amos Decker, last seen in Memory Man, is part of an FBI special task force charged with investigating cold cases. Here he takes an interest in Melvin Mars, a man who has spent 20 years in jail and is about to be executed for brutally murdering his parents when someone else confesses to the crime. Decker, who has a photographic memory and can never forget anything, identifies the improbable murderer but not until after a member of the task force disappears. Kyf Brewer's nuanced narration brings out Decker's and Mars's different personalities and feelings about the case, and Orlagh Cassidy does an excellent job voicing the female characters and deploying various regional accents. Verdict Recommended for audio thriller collections. ["Just when the story line heads to what seems an obvious conclusion, Baldacci veers off course with a surprising twist. The end result is another exciting read from a thriller master": Xpress Reviews 3/25/16 starred review of the Grand Central hc.]-Ilka Gordon, Beachwood, OH © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.