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.
Key facts about Memory Man
David Baldacci wrote Memory Man, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1 January 2015. The book has 474 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781509839292 to find the main one.
Memory Man is book 1 of 7 in the Amos Decker series. The series has 7 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Long Shadows is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 January 2022.
Additionally, David Baldacci writes Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, Camel Club and A. Shaw, plus 6 more series. Those series sit on our thriller, espionage thriller and historical crime shelves. Meanwhile, All In is the latest published David Baldacci book on file, from 10 November 2026.
About David Baldacci
David Baldacci is an American thriller writer and one of the genre's most prolific and consistently bestselling names, with over 150 million books in print and dozens of New York Times bestsellers since his 1996 debut, Absolute Power — a political conspiracy thriller adapted into the 1997 film starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman. See every David Baldacci book in order.
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