Unraveling the killer's many motivations and messages, including nasty family secrets, takes too long, and there is much excess dialogue that could have been eliminated. A lifelong Virginian, David is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia School of Law. Dabney’s recovering to the point of being questioned was simply not going to happen, the doctors had told them. A bird zipped across in front of Decker, perched on a lamppost, and looked down curiously at the passersby. The injury he suffered to his head left him with rare case of hyperthymesia which means that he has a photographic memory.

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Anne Berkshire, a substitute teacher at a Catholic school and volunteer at a local hospice, lived in a multimillion dollar condominium and owned a an expensive Mercedes. Milligan was in his midthirties, six feet tall, with close-cropped hair and a physique that appeared chiseled out of granite.The Bureau is taking the lead on this since Dabney was a contractor for them and it happened on their doorstep. Amos Decker, 6'5" tall and over 300 pounds, was a professional football player until a massive hit ended his career and left him with hyperthymesia and synesthesia. All while dealing with wounds from the past and trying to live as a different person, then he previously was. Like usual, the author pulled the fat out of the fire just when things were getting noticeably boring.

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Decker and his team can find absolutely no connection between the shooter -- a family man with a successful consulting business -- and his victim, a schoolteacher.

A near-fatal hit he’d received on the football field had commingled his sensory pathways, a condition known as synesthesia.

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Walter Dabney pressed the gun’s muzzle to the bottom of his chin and pulled the trigger for a second and final time. Dabney picked up his pace a bit, his Allen Edmonds wingtips striking the stained pavement with purpose. In 2020, Baldacci launched his own podcast, “David Baldacci’s Power of Story,” where he interviews fellow authors and discusses the craft of writing. Mickey Gibson, single mother, and former detective lead a hectic life similar to that of many moms: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats.

Decker continued to lope along, his long strides eating up ground until he was only about ten yards behind Dabney. When pressed, Brown says that the murder is now a matter of national security, involving a scenario that could be bigger than 9/11. As part of an FBI special task force, Decker and the team delve into the lives of Dabney and Berkshire to find a connection that doesn’t seem to exist.