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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.”
FBI special agent Pine’s twin sister, Mercy, was taken from the room they shared as young children. “It’s seared into Atlee Pine’s memory; the kidnapper’s chilling rhyme as he choase between six-year-old Atlee and her twin sister, Mercy. Mercy was taken, Atlee was spared.” The story starts with Agent Pine going to visit the killer in the supermax prison ADX in Florence Colorado, but her home base is in the remote parts of the Southwest.
Atlee has never stopped searching for her sisters’ body and the survivor’s guilt has led her to spent her life hunting down those who hurt others. She has just been assigned to investigate a case in the Grand Canyon when a mule is found dead with strange carvings on its body, and its rider missing.
The search for the missing rider takes her across country and involves a plot that is a threat to the entire world by a monster she had never considered.
This is the first book in David Baldacci’s new Atlee Pine thriller series. A good start.
Quotes
“Justice. It wasn’t about the greater good. It was about what was right and wrong on an individual basis. Person by person. Because if you neglected the people, the idea of a greater good was a pipe dream created by those whose idea of the “greater good” almost always tended to favor themselves and people like them.”
“For me, the Canyon isn’t just a tourist destination. It’s a living, breathing place. It has a dozen plants that live nowhere else.
“She’d heard that the author Margaret Mitchell had never lived in a place with more than one bedroom for a simple reason: She had never wanted houseguests.”
“narcissist. People often discounted narcissism as relatively harmless because the term sometimes conjured the clichéd image of a vain man staring longingly at his reflection in a pool of water or a mirror. However, Pine knew that narcissism was probably one of the most dangerous traits someone could possess for one critical reason: The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a narcissist. Killing could even be like a hit of fentanyl: instant euphoria from the domination and destruction of another. That was why virtually every serial murderer was also a narcissist.”
