But Decker is a man with a conscience and he isn’t about to stop until justice has been served.

Someone out there doesn’t want the truth to be told and they’ll have no hesitation in killing again, and again, if it serves to stall any moves toward a new investigation. Trouble is, if Hawkins wasn’t the killer, then who was? Then Hawkins himself is murdered and things ratchet up a notch or two. Now Hawkins has terminal cancer and has been let out of jail and he wants Decker to prove his innocence, once and for all.ĭecker dismisses Hawkins as a phoney, but as he takes a fresh look at the case, his resolve beings to disintegrate. 13 years ago, Meryl Hawkins was put in prison for the rest of his life, found guilty of four murders in a quiet Burlington home, on the evidence of two rookie detectives – Decker and his partner Mary Lancaster.

His private visit to the graveside is interrupted when a stranger approaches Decker who is shocked to realise they’ve met before. That perfect recall can come in pretty handy in Decker’s line of work, but the torture of reliving his family’s murders over and over again is something that keeps Decker awake at night. The condition is both a blessing and a curse. He suffers from hyperthymesia, otherwise known as perfect recall, something which has afflicted him since a freak American football accident damaged his brain as a teenager. The moment would be traumatic enough for anyone, but for Decker it’s even worse. The image of what he discovered that night is burned deep into his memory, never to be forgotten. Their bodies were found by Decker who had left work late, only to arrive home to a scene of carnage. His police career began in his home town of Burlington, Ohio, and that’s where this book opens as he makes a pilgrimage to visit the graves of his wife and daughter on what would have been Molly’s 14th birthday.ĭecker is haunted by what happened just over four years ago, when wife Cassie, Molly and his brother-in-law, Johnny, were murdered in the family home. Decker, a former cop, now works as a consultant to the FBI. Newcomers to the work of Baldacci, and to his character, Amos Decker, won’t feel at all left out by reading Redemption as a standalone. Thankfully, the answer to that is a firm yes. Time to change that, but is it wise to start the acquaintance by jumping in at book five of an established series? Written by David Baldacci - He’s sold over 130 million books, yet to date David Baldacci has been off this reviewer’s radar.

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