Memory Man is the first book (of two so far) in Baldacci's newest series featuring a rather unique character named Amos Decker. As a 22 year old playing his first NFL game, Decker, on his very first play, suffers a traumatic head injury that not only ended his football career, it induced hyperthymesia and synesthesia -- resulting in his never forgetting anything and his counting in colors and seeing time as pictures in his head.
I won't provide a plot description as this can be gotten from the Amazon Book Description above. Rather, I'll provide some of my feelings about Memory Man which, hopefully, will be of help in deciding if it is a book you'll want to read.
Overall, there several key positive aspects that far outweigh what I consider to be its one, but not insignificant, key flaw.
On the positive side, Baldacci writes in a brisk narrative style and composes dialogue that is realistic for the characters speaking it. The plot is multi-faceted, interesting, fast-paced and has an above-average amount of twists and turns. And, perhaps, most importantly, Baldacci's main character and more secondary "good guy" characters are pretty well-developed and likeable enough to make me interested in going along with them on their next case. Further, you're not likely to forget a villain in this book anytime soon.
For me, these aspects override a number of the actions of Amos Decker and some of the motivations of a villain that I consider to be far-fetched enough to almost push me to the very edge of my ability to suspend belief. This flaw resulted in my deducting one star from my overall rating.
If you can accept a plot that while fun and interesting has some credibility issues, than I think Memory Man is a book worthy of your consideration. I, for one, found Memory Man to have enough merit to make me interested enough to read the second book in the Amos Decker series, called The Last Mile.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2017
I came to this book after reading the second in the Decker series and it introduces us to Decker and two or three of the characters that work alongside him in the other two books. It is just as exciting as the later books but does explain Decker's 'raisin d'etre'. The special powers that Decker possesses after an accident whilst playing American football are a great asset to his investigative powers as a private detective. Even the CIA realise what a valuable asset he could be to them and he is granted special CIA authority to work for them. He doesn't let them down. Find out why by reading this exciting introduction to the phenomenon known as Amos Decker.
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well written but loses points for demonising a minority group
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