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She worked, too, as the assistant principal at the school where we all went. My dad was a cop in Philly. Never made that much money.” They went to visit Earl’s mother in Cleveland. She’s not doing well. Probably won’t be long for this world. She’s old, and gaga like me, actually.” It’s so difficult to understand time, Amos, night and then day. But then, everything is very difficult for me to understand right now. And…it’s so very frightening because…every day there seems to…be less and less of me…th-there.”
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Mine. He had come close to filling it on several occasions, once by his own hand, while staring at his murdered child as she sat, in death, in her own house. A woman who owns what looks to be a two- or three-million- dollar home is not driving a dented-up ten-year-old Mazda. And The casket had been closed. The gunshot had been fired upward through the mouth, leaving Mary Lancaster beyond the magic of the mortician’s cosmetics, and thus unviewable. As they begin to investigate, they are caught up in something that might put them in the crosshairs of something completely unexpected that could result in them being the next target.For you, too,” she said. “There is no cure for you, either.” In these words he could sense her seeking some level of solidarity with him in diseases of the mind that would end up doing them both in. Mary Lancaster, at least in her mind, could not have committed a graver sin than not remembering that her daughter existed. He was certain that was what had placed the finger on the trigger and given her the strength to pull it. He had still been on the line when the police had arrived at Lancaster’s house. He had talked first to the officer, and then the detective, a man he knew from the old days. There had been sadness exchanged on the loss of a life well known to them, a grudging acceptance of the choice made, and of the motive behind it. Amos knows something doesn't add up. The judge was stabbed to death and the bodyguard was shot instead. Are there two killers? with us being here, you’re going to have to take it up with HQ. But right now, we’re going to work, just like you.”
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Since I pretty much can’t forget anything, it’s not likely I’d forget you, is it, Mary?” He patted himself on both cheeks, working to remove the fuzziness from his mind. Then his thoughts settled on the timing of the call, which was in itself a warning.He had served justice in both cases, but it was, without doubt, a hollow outcome, marred by the fact that the justice was delivered too late for the victims. No amount of justice could return the dead to the living; the satisfaction gained from learning the truth was dwarfed by the loss. When he is given a new FBI Agent partner, Frederica White, he is not enthusiastic but she perseveres and they start to become a good team. The plot is very involved and features a lot of police procedural work which I always enjoy. There are multiple suspects and an equal number of red herrings. I did not predict the ending. Good enough for me, but if we walk out of here now Talbott will just make us have lunch together or something, and I doubt you want that.” He knew exactly what she was referring to. “It seems to,” he answered. “But everyone’s mind changes, Mary, healthy or not. Nothing is static. Normal or not, whatever normal is.” Sharp as a pistol shot she barked, “I forgot Sandy today. Right before they left to go to Cleveland. I forgot her.”
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When they get there they find a complicated crime scene. The bodyguard, Draymont, was found downstairs shot to death while the judge was upstairs in her bedroom where she had been stabbed multiple times. To top things off, Draymont had a wad of foreign currency stuffed down his throat. The door opened and there stood Talbott. His features grim, he did not seem remotely like the cheerful man from a few minutes ago. Baldacci is an auto read author for me, and this book just shows you why. His plots are complicated but never confusing. His characters are realistic and get into your heart. If you spoke to Alex, you know all you need to know about me.” “But nobody tells it as good as the person himself.” Well, what I got from it was this was an inside job, or at least the killer knew things he shouldn’t have.”
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hundred pounds. Compared to that description, you’re sort of shrimpy. I can’t help feeling disappointed. But nevertheless, are we good to go, partner?” What about tomorrow?” she said, interrupting these thoughts. “Will I remember her tomorrow? Or Earl? Or you? Or…me? So what does it matter? Can you tell me that?” He recited from memory, “‘As a person of color and a woman on top of that, I find it a necessity to my future well-being, and that of my family.’ ” I have a gun, Amos. My old service automatic. I haven’t held it in years. But it fits my hand so fine. I remembered the gun safe combination, can you believe that? After I forgot pretty much everything else, I remembered that. I suppose it was…an omen of sorts,” she added offhandedly. Below is an excerpt from Long Shadows , the upcoming thriller in David Baldacci’s Memory Man series.
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He and Lancaster had successfully partnered on many cases. Having a perfect memory was a godsend for a detective, but a thousand-pound ball-and-chain for a human being. Time did not heal any of his past miseries. If anything, they were more intensified. He had gone there the month before for some routine tests, which they had done on him annually ever since he had been there as a patient after his football injury.Memory Man was a wonderful book with lots of twists and turns, so naturally I had to read the series. When Long Shadows was finally released, I bought the book immediately and couldn't wait to read it. Right. So the ex-hubby’s a possible suspect.” “Spouses, and particularly exes, always are.” “Don’t I know it,” replied White. She gave him the full hiked-eyebrows treatment. The hole in the side of her nostril quivered with something, maybe suppressed energy or rage. She continued as though he hadn’t spoken. She said, “I just remembered her before I called you. And only because I looked at a photo with her name on it. I forgot I had a daughter, Amos. For a time there was no Sandy Lancaster in existence for me. Can you understand how…terrible that is?”
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