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Back in seedy, derelict Burlington . Why?! Did someone run out of writing prompts?

Right, folks, the hard truth is that almost all of the USA is like Baronville. Everyone thinks it’s only their area, that the grass is greener everywhere else. When I was in graduate school in Massachusetts we even had a contingent of people escaping California, who couldn’t really articulate why they had to leave but they were never going back.

Years ago, after some graduate school and some internship work there, I got the hell out of Massachusetts and now I remember why, unfortunately. I was probably better off with the memory problem, in the service of my peace of mind and soul.

Goodness me, I know I have a memory problem, but I didn’t realize exactly to what extent healthy people are expected to recall the details of the books they’ve read. Bc I’ve read 3 books of the list in chapter 7 and I couldn’t give u a single detail of any of them. I read the Ngaio Marsh one just a few weeks ago and I didn’t recall it being winter or there being a big storm outside, or anything else.

There’s a massive amount of police and other legal officer brutality depicted in Baldacci’s novels. Pistols, revolvers and shotguns are also de rigeur. Lots of murdered bodies all over the place.

It’s a bit less hairy than the first book in this series. Then i’ve decided Baldacci’s natural target reading audience is always adult males.
Lastly, life in the good ol’ USA ain’t a picnic that’s fir sure, as it’s displayed in these stories .

It’s a rather nervy story. The only thing helping me out is that this book is the first in the Memory Man series so the case must turn out ok for the protagonist Memory Man Amos Decker.

There’s no relief from awful stuff in every chapter. No wonder people don’t like trial lawyers all that much page.

ugly scenes n situation depicted, although nothing new to me. it’s just not nice to be reminded of it. I never went to law school bc I hate crime in any case.

This book’s very different from Baldacci’s 6:20 Man series. I guess i preferred the other series to thus one

Thrilling . Although whenever Travis Devine looks out over the Gulf of Maine I think of the Hardy Boys for some reason

Nice. Now he’s got me practicing how to break out if wrists zip-tied together in front of body, easy-peasy apparently.

It’s interesting. Apparently one can learn very useful mind-game things in the army, like ‘The body will not go where the mind has not been before” .
It’s something like from Star-Trek, ‘to boldly go where no man has gone before’ … No, isn’t it ?
I’m tired, have to turn on the sunset lamp and hit the hay.

Starts w the g.o.t.t. particularly active in the Simplon Tunnel btwn Switz. n Italy but on a Trenitalia, not on the Simplon-Orient-Express train. But the writer D.Baldacci is a very smart, creative individual.