He also received the Literary Lifetime Achievement Award from the Library of Virginia in 2017. His family’s Wish You Well Foundation supports family and adult literacy programs in the United States.
In 2008, Baldacci won the International Thriller Writers first ever Silver Bullet Award, which recognizes outstanding and meritorious achievement in philanthropic endeavors. It will be released on April 21, the day before Baldacci arrives in Des Moines. As the population booms, crime increases, and now Amos and Alex must investigate the shocking death of a young woman.
In Walk the Wire, Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison are brought into a booming fracking town in North Dakota. The books feature Amos Decker, an extraordinary detective who, because of a life-changing brain injury, remembers everything, including painful things he would give anything to forget. The book was adapted into a feature film with Clint Eastwood as its director and star. Since then, Baldacci has sold more than 150 million copies of his books worldwide, including in more than 80 countries and 45 languages.īaldacci newest book, Walk the Wire, continues the #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series. After practicing law for nine years in Washington D.C., Baldacci published his first novel, a political thriller titled Absolute Power, in 1996. High Auditoriumĭavid Baldacci is the bestselling author of more than forty novels. Decker will need all of his extraordinary brainpower to stop an innocent man from being executed.Wednesday, April 22, 7:00 PM, Franklin Jr. Who wants Mars out of prison? And why now? But when a member of Decker's team disappears, it becomes clear that something much larger-and more sinister-than just one convicted criminal's life hangs in the balance. Memory Man (Memory Man Series, 1) Mass Market Paperback Februby David Baldacci (Author) 4.4 97,600 ratings Book 1 of 7: Amos Decker Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. The confession has the potential to make Melvin Mars-guilty or not-a free man. A suspect who may or may not have been telling the truth. Design your Photo Book with ease using our digital Photo Book software. And in both cases, another suspect came forward, years after the killing, to confess to the crime. Create high quality, custom Photo Books & Photo Albums online with MILK Books. Both men's families were brutally murdered. Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars's case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short by tragedy. THE LAST MILE Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution-for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier-when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Now, Decker returns in a spectacular new thriller. In his #1 New York Times bestseller Memory Man, David Baldacci introduced the extraordinary detective Amos Decker-the man who can forget nothing.
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