The Fix: David Baldacci (Amos Decker series)

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She nodded. “The Bureau is taking the lead on this since Dabney was a contractor for them and it happened on their doorstep. So I’m your girl.” A postmortem was legally required even though there was no doubt whatsoever as to what had caused the woman’s death.

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The Bureau was trying to build a new facility to house eleven thousand employees, but a new location hadn’t even been chosen. So the opening of a new headquarters was about two billion dollars and seven years away.

And the dead woman is identified as Anne Berkshire, a substitute teacher at a Catholic school and a volunteer for a local hospice. Let’s have a closer look,” Wainwright said. She gripped a magnifying glass set on a rotating arm and positioned it over the mark. She turned on a light and aimed it at the dead woman’s hand. Peering through the glass, she said, “Appears to be a stamp of some sort.” David Baldacci has been writing since childhood, when his mother gave him a lined notebook in which to write down his stories. (Much later, when David thanked her for being the spark that ignited his writing career, she revealed that she’d given him the notebook to keep him quiet, "because every mom needs a break now and then.”) He let his lanyard go and assumed a two-handed shooting stance, his muzzle aimed at Dabney’s chest. The FBI uniform ran up to stand next to him, his gun pointed at Dabney. “Put the gun down, now!” the guard shouted. “Last chance, or we will shoot.”

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Jamison said, “There must be something unless it was completely random. And that doesn’t make much sense either.” Mrs. Eleanor Dabney, better known as Ellie, had arrived thirty minutes after the FBI had told her what had happened. They would have to question her, but right now the woman was simply a grieving widow-to-be. She was currently in the bathroom throwing up, a nurse assisting her. Memory Man was one of my favourite books of 2015. Although I enjoyed The Last Mile I didn’t find it quite as appealing in the addictive way I felt about number one (and now) number three. The Fix by David Baldacci will be published in Australia by Pan Macmillan and available from 20 April 2017.David Baldacci is one of my top favourite thriller writers. His ability to create complex plots is impressive. The characters he fictionalises are such clear 'persons'. I see them and the plot like an action movie in my mind. The set-up for The Fix is one of the best this master of the thriller has ever come up with, and there is no letdown as Amos and his associates dig into an increasingly bizarre case…[Baldacci’s] plotting is more masterful than ever, and The Fix is nothing less than terrific from start to finish.” — Connecticut News He had a briefcase and an ID. It seems he was heading to the Hoover Building. Was he going to a meeting?” Liked everything about this book. Narration, characters, story line. Hated it to end " — Joanne, 6/12/2017