The Last Mile

Its place in Amos Decker

The Last Mile is book 2 in the Amos Decker series. It follows Memory Man. It is followed by The Fix. 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…