I kind of enjoyed Memory Man, the first book in the Amos Decker series.

Happily, I enjoyed Last Mile, 2nd in the series, more. Interesting and entertaining. Though it bogged down towards the end.

Decker is 6′ 5″ and an obese 350 lbs.

He has perfect memory.

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’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. …

Last Mile

The audio book has two narrators. That normally doesn’t work for me. And it didn’t work this time.

Click PLAY or watch an interview on YouTube. Baldacci writes more books / year than just about anyone.