Amos Decker--the FBI consultant with a perfect memory--returns
to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town in the
newest thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling
Memory Man series.
When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to
London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving fracking
town is ripe for trouble. The promise of a second gold rush has
attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, and the
community is growing faster than houses can be built. The sudden boom
has also brought a slew of problems with it, including drugs, property
crimes, prostitution--and now murder.
Decker and Jamison are ordered to investigate the death of a young woman
named Irene Cramer, whose body was expertly autopsied and then dumped in
the open--which is only the beginning of the oddities surrounding the
case. As Decker and Jamison dig into Irene's life, they are shocked to
discover that the woman who walked the streets by night as a prostitute
was a teacher for a local religious sect by day--a sect operating on
land once owned by a mysterious government facility that looms over the
entire community.
London is a town replete with ruthless business owners, shady government
officials, and religious outsiders, all determined to keep their secrets
from coming out. When other murders occur, Decker will need all of his
extraordinary memory and detective skills, and the assistance of a
surprising ally, to root out a killer and the forces behind Cramer's
death . . . before the boom town explodes.
