The Last Mile (Amos Decker series, 2)

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But he had done it pretty much every day since he’d been in here, and part of him felt this was his last act of defiance. The cell door clanged shut and Mars, his legs oddly wobbly, lurched over and fell rather than sat on his bunk. He had been taken from his cell to this room without having to don the chains, a first since his time in prison. While focusing on the right for racial equality of the 1960's, it brought to the forefront the continuing struggles we have today, but without being preachy. And he nearly always made the first guy miss with an instinctive lateral move—a rare talent the NFL gurus lapped up.

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Staring at the floor now, Skinny Glasses said, “There’s been an unexpected development in your case. In a final twist, it is revealed that Roy, Mars’ father, faked his death upon learning that his wife had a terminal illness.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Stage and film actor Brick, an Audie Award–winning veteran of more than 150 audiobooks, is clearly a pro at interpreting the printed word. The man with slender glasses and a build to match stepped gingerly into the cell as though he expected the door to close, trapping him inside forever. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.

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David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. Legal thriller fixture Baldacci (Deliver Us from Evil) churns out a creaky, contrived family drama about Jack Armstrong, a terminally ill family man just praying to make it to Christmas. 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. The pious man of God clutching his Bible and reading aloud his verses because you were supposed to have something spiritual to cling to on your way out of here. He also insists that he had no hand in the murder, and has a feeling that he was framed by his parents; however, he lacks any concrete evidence to fully convince the detectives.One recently incarcerated punk was the product of biracial parents, who in turn were also the children of nontraditional pairings. When readers first met Amos Decker, he was a socially inept giant mired in the past; his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law were brutally murdered in Decker’s own home. He could touch his toes to his forehead with his legs ramrod straight, no small feat for a big, ropy-muscled man. Join now to access our Study Guides library, which offers chapter-by-chapter summaries and comprehensive analysis on more than 5,000 literary works from novels to nonfiction to poetry.

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FBI detective Amos Decker reaches out to Mars, revealing a personal interest in the case because he was once accused of the exact same crime before a suspect came forward. Narrators Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy team up to bring Baldacci’s latest thriller to life in this enjoyable audio edition. His perfect memory makes him an asset to the newly-formed FBI team and he is driven to solve a twenty-year-old cold case involving a former college football star convicted of murdering his parents. 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. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Yet if Mars took a swing at him he’d be rotting in here forever, regardless of what happened with this Montgomery guy in Alabama.

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Decker and his compatriots are characters to remember long after reading this impressive undertaking.Decker feels an affinity for Mars, since the two played against each other once, and Decker also lost family members to a killer. his] fertile imagination and intricate plotting abilities make each of his books a treat for thriller readers. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. The team reports for their first day of duty and almost immediately travels from Quantico to Texas to work the case of a former NFL shoo-in, Melvin Mars, who—on the brink of the pro football draft—was arrested, charged, and convicted of killing his parents. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.