Книги серии «Amos Decker»

With over 110 million copies of his novels in print, David Baldacci is one of the most widely read storytellers in the world. Now he introduces a startling, original new character: a man with perfect memory who must solve his own family's murder.

MEMORY MAN

Amos Decker's life changed forever — twice.

The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect — he can never forget anything.

The second time was at home nearly two decades later. Now a police detective, Decker returned from a stakeout one evening and entered a nightmare — his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law had been murdered.

His family destroyed, their killer's identity as mysterious as the motive behind the crime, and unable to forget a single detail from that horrible night, Decker finds his world collapsing around him. He leaves the police force, loses his home, and winds up on the street, taking piecemeal jobs as a private investigator when he can.

But over a year later, a man turns himself in to the police and confesses to the murders. At the same time a horrific event nearly brings Burlington to its knees, and Decker is called back in to help with this investigation. Decker also seizes his chance to learn what really happened to his family that night. To uncover the stunning truth, he must use his remarkable gifts and confront the burdens that go along with them. He must endure the memories he would much rather forget. And he may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.

MEMORY MAN will stay with you long after the turn of the final page.

Страшный удар по голове оборвал спортивную карьеру Амоса Декера — и он же пробудил в нем уникальную способность к абсолютной памяти. Декер детально запоминает всё, что когда-либо видел и слышал. Поэтому день, когда Амос пришел работать в полицию, стал черным днем для преступников. Теперь им не скрыться от правосудия — ибо по их следу идет Человек-память…

Полицейская карьера Амоса Декера шла в гору, до тех пор пока не произошла ужасная трагедия — кто-то убил его жену и маленькую дочь…

Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution — for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier — when he’s granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime.

Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars’ 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.

Жуткая травма головы, полученная на футбольном поле, не только оборвала спортивную карьеру Амоса Декера. Теперь он – обладатель абсолютной памяти и способен запоминать буквально все, что когда-либо видел или слышал. Что ж, внезапно обретенная суперспособность пришлась как нельзя кстати для его новой работы – службы в полиции, а затем в ФБР…

К Амосу, склонившемуся над могилами жены и дочери, подходит необычайно изможденный человек по имени Мерил Хокинс. Тот самый первый убийца, которого Декер отправил за решетку тринадцать лет назад. Администрация тюрьмы не стала морочиться со смертельно больным заключенным и выпустила его доживать последние дни на свободе. И вот он пришел заявить, что невиновен. У Амоса же нет сомнений – все было сделано правильно. Однако вскоре Хокинса находят с простреленной головой, и Декер – обладатель абсолютной памяти – минуту за минутой восстанавливает в голове события тех дней. Чем больше он думает о них, тем острее понимает, как крепко тогда ошибся…

FBI consultant Amos Decker discovers that he may have made a fatal mistake when he was a rookie homicide detective. Back in his home town, he’s now compelled to discover the truth...

Decker has returned to Burlington, Ohio, for a special reason. It would have been his daughter Molly’s fourteenth birthday. Molly was brutally murdered four years ago in their home, along with his beloved wife, Cassie, and his brother-in-law.

But then Decker is tracked down by a man he’ll never forget: Meryl Hawkins, his first homicide arrest more than twelve years ago. Hawkins has been in prison serving a life sentence but was recently released due to a terminal illness.

Decker now finds himself questioning what had seemed watertight evidence at the time — maybe he’d been a bit too keen to get that conviction? Could Hawkins really be innocent, as he’s always claimed?

If so, the killer is still out there — with a possible connection to a new crime. As the body count rises, and Decker and his former partner Mary Lancaster dig deeper, it looks as though there’s a lot more to what they thought was a closed case.