Amos Decker · Book 1
Memory Man
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 474
- ISBN-13
- 9781509839292
- Type
- novel

About this book
Memory Man opens David Baldacci's Amos Decker series in 2015, introducing a former football player whose brutal on-field hit left him with hyperthymesia -- total, inescapable recall -- shortly before he comes home to find his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law murdered. At 474 pages, it establishes the emotional foundation every later Decker book builds on.
Its place in Amos Decker
Memory Man is book 1 in the Amos Decker series. It is followed by The Last Mile. See the full Amos Decker reading order.
Amos Decker is a former football player turned homicide detective whose life changed twice: once when a brutal on-field hit gave him hyperthymesia (total, inescapable recall of everything he's ever experienced) and synesthesia, and again when he came home to find his wife, daughter and brother-in-law murdered. David Baldacci builds the series around that central irony — a man who can never forget investigating crimes precisely because forgetting is what everyone else needs to move on — and pairs Decker's…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781548602734
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781509839292