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The Last Mile by David Baldacci
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I've just finished this one. An excellent read, gave it 5 stars!
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Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars's case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short by tragedy. Both men's families were brutally murdered. And in both cases, another suspect came forward, years after the killing, to confess to the crime. A suspect who may or may not have been telling the truth.
The confession has the potential to make Melvin Mars--guilty or not--a free man. Who wants Mars out of prison? And why now?
But when a member of Decker's team disappears, it becomes clear that something much larger--and more sinister--than just one convicted criminal's life hangs in the balance. Decker will need all of his extraordinary brainpower to stop an innocent man from being executed.
Character List
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Amos Decker: Former professional football player, former policeman. After a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him unconscious, he is unable to forget anything. He counts in colors and sees time as pictures. His wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law are murdered. At age 42, he is grossly overweight and barely scratched out a living as a PI but is now working on a special FBI task force under Ross Bogart.
Ross Bogart: FBI special agent who is now heading up a special task force to investigate cold or questionable cases.
Alex Jamison: Former reporter for the Ohio News Leader, now a member of Bogart's special task force.
Lisa Davenport: Member of Bogart's special team, a clinical psychologist specializing in sociopaths and the like.
Todd Milligan: Member of Bogart's special team, an FBI agent.
Melvin Mars: Former college football star who was convicted of murdering his parents and is on death row.
Lucinda Mars: Melvin's mother who he was accused of murdering.
Roy Mars: Melvin's father who he was accused of murdering.
Charles Montgomery: Confessed to the Mars murders.
Regina Montgomery: Charles' wife.
Tommy Montgomery: Charles' son.
Mary Oliver: Melvin's attorney.
Ellen Tanner: Woman Melvin spent the night with the night his parents were murdered.
Reedy: Prison guard.
Big Dick: Prison guard.
Patricia (Patti) Bray: Regina's neighbor.
Jerry Bivens: Assistant branch manager at Texas First National Bank.
Frank Jenkins: Texas district attorney.
Thurman Huey: US Congressman from Mississippi. Former mayor of Cain. He, Danny and Roger were known in high school as the Three Musketeers.
Travis Huey: Thurman's father who was highly influential. He was the former governor of Mississippi and then went on to be elected to the US Senate.
Nathan Ryan: Former Cain assistant mayor under Thurman.
Mildred Ryan: Nathan's wife.
Julie Smithers: Mildred's daughter.
Danny Eastland: Wealthy founder and CEO of a government defense contractor. Friend of Thurman and Roger.
Roger McClellan: Cain Police chief. Friend of Thurman and Danny.
Wanda Pierce: Cain police department administrator.
Lewis Fisher, Sr.: Retired dentist from Melvin's hometown.
Lewis Fisher, III: Grandson of Louis, Sr. who assumed his dental practice.
Melissa Dowd: Lewis Sr.'s assistant.
Dan Reardon: Missing man from Melvin's hometown.
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Spoiler Info
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Roy was not Melvin's real father. His real name is Aaron Callahan.
Lucinda's real name was Roxanne Barrett.
Roy killed Dan Reardon, had Lucinda switch out his dental records and used his body as his.
Mary Oliver was in cahoots with McLellan.
McLellan kidnapped Lisa Davenport.
Montgomery helped with the Mississippi bombings.
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