Baldacci’s books draw you in and your into another world. It is an escape that holds your interest from cover to cover. Walk the Wire is the sixth in the Memory Man series.
FBI Agent Amos Decker, Memory Man, is back, and he and Jamison are sent to investigate the death of a young woman in London, South Dakota, Irene Cramer, whose remains are found by a lone hunter and who were expertly autopsied by her killer and then dumped where wolves might have eaten her.
The town is next door to an old military base, a religious group, secluded homes, and in the middle of a booming economy with the explosion of growth in the fracking industry, which has attracted people worldwide.
“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
“But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.”
“Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.
“It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them, it's the journey and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America and your country gets on and says hello.”