The Fallen (Amos Decker series, 4)

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The harshest legal consequences of all were reserved for acts of murder, because what was more precious than human life? Suffice to say, once a cop, always a cop, and Amos, who is now working in a special task force for the FBI, can’t leave the strange things he saw around a neighbor’s home alone.

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But even the duo's skills and Amos Decker's infallible memory may not be enough to save this town, or them, from becoming the next victims. When he started his series of books he started with split-second which is also one of the world-famous books! David Baldacci is a bestselling American author who has written numerous novels, including thrillers, mysteries, and young adult fiction. You wanted someone dead for your benefit and you laid out a plan in advance to make sure that death happened.Decker had been reluctant to go with Jamison, but their boss, Special Agent Bogart, had insisted that Decker take some type of a rest. First-degree murder almost always required the specific elements of willfulness, premeditation, and malice aforethought.

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Summer was over, but the thunderstorms often accompanying the segue into early fall appeared to be fully engaged.

Also, the temperature had dropped some, and there was a low fog building, that, along with the gathering clouds, obscured the sky even more. Decker sipped his beer as he went through the legal requirements of intentionally ending the life of another.

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He didn’t know if the electrical short had affected the lights in the rest of the house, but, right now, darkness was his friend. He heard it had once been a thriving mill and mining town, owing its very existence to the eponymous Baron family, which had dug the mines and built the mills. He had used his wet jacket to beat out the flames on the wall, and had rolled up the carpet to smother the fire there. There you intended to harm another and you were doing so for your personal benefit, but the law said you had the right to defend yourself, which disqualified it from being murder.

Yet answering the latter question accurately constituted a great bulk of Decker’s professional life, which was really the only life he had left. Not only does the arms dealer not exist but the murder victim turns out to be Harry Langhorne, a man with mob ties who used to be in Witness Protection. Those possessing such a condition often could apply it only to autobiographical information, and often had below-average memory capacities in other aspects of their lives.