

THE EXCHANGE: John Grisham Announces Sequel to His Classic 1991 Novel, ‘The Firm’.Featured Review: ‘Only the Dead’ by Jack Carr.The Real Book Spy’s May 2023 Reading Guide.VIDEO REPLAY: Watch The Real Book Spy Interview #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Jack Carr.Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestseller and award-winning author of ten international espionage novels Recent Posts Ben Coes, New York Times bestselling author of international espionage thrillers featuring Dewey Andreas “Thank God for The Real Book Spy, without him the thriller world would be in total chaos.” For more information, be sure to follow him on Twitter and Facebook. His debut thriller, FIELDS OF FIRE, comes out on September 6, 2022. Steck also works full-time as a freelance editor and co-hosts the ThrillerTalk podcast. Praised as “One of the hardest working, most thoughtful, and fairest reviewers out there” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, Ryan Steck has “quickly established himself as the authority on mysteries and thrillers” (Author A.J. For now, Readers excited to get their hands on the next Memory Man thriller can pre-order Long Shadows here. Not much is known about the plot details for Long Shadows at this time, but that will soon change with both the official cover art andsynopsis just around the corner, so make sure to check back here for more updates in the coming weeks. The flip side, of course, is that even painful memories are always present too, horrors from years past as new and visual in his mind as whatever happened the day before-which is bad news for a man who more than a decade ago found his wife and child murdered. With total recall, he never forgets any details and things are always fresh in his mind’s eye. ever.įor Decker, who now works as a consultant to the FBI, having every memory permanently seared into his brain no doubt helps when he’s working on various cases. In layman’s terms, Decker can now associate things such as death, for example, with a distinct color-on top of not being able to forget anything. As the books explain, Decker suffers from both hyperthymesia and synesthesia, the result of a bone-crushing hit to his head while playing linebacker in the NFL.

One of Baldacci’s best protagonists to date, Decker is unique due to a medical condition that has left him with a perfect memory.

He was last seen in Baldacci’s Walk the Wire (2020), which followed Amos as he investigated a gruesome murder in a small North Dakota oil town. On October 11, 2022, Amos Decker returns to action in Long Shadows, the latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.įirst introduced in the 2015 novel Memory Man, Decker quickly became a fan-favorite character on his way to anchoring six well-received thrillers over a five-year period.
