"The Fix," begins as Amos Decker is walking to an FBI meeting in the Hoover building in Washington DC. The man walking a little ahead of him approaches the building about the same time Anne Berkshire is coming from the other direction. The man walks up to the women and shots her in the back of her head and then turns the gun killing himself.
Decker and his sidekick Alex are assigned to the case and he uses his photographic memory and powers of deduction only to find the case totally baffling. The shooter is a family man with a successful businessman who consults with the FBI and was a former employee of the NSA. Decker and his team are unable to find any link between Dabney and the victim who is a substitute schoolteacher who volunteers in a local hospice.
Harper Brown is an agent for the DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, and shows up soon telling Decker to back off because the murder is part of their open investigation involving a National Security issue that could be bigger than 9/11.
Decker is the man who cannot forget anything, and his mental powers drive the ever-twisting plot of “The Fix”. Baldacci is indeed a master storyteller.
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David Baldacci Quotes
“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?” ...
“Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. ...
“When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. ...
“Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.” “Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.”
“Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.”
“All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.”
