David Baldacci, WALK THE WIRE

David Baldacci, WALK THE WIRE

David: This is the sixth installment in the Amos Decker series. He's my Memory Man. He's this ex-football player who had a brain trauma while he was playing. It changed his brain, basically. It gave him an infallible memory. Now he's a detective. He works for the FBI. He's been called to North Dakota along with his partner, Alex Jamison, because a body's been discovered. The interesting thing about the body is it's already been autopsied like you would have in a postmortem. They don't know why they're being called in for a local murder. The FBI usually is not. When they get up to this town called London, North Dakota, it's a fracking town. It really has just been built up overnight. The whole town is full of dark secrets. A lot of things are going on that aren't readily apparent. What really drew me to this place to create it were a couple things. One was the fracking component. Two was this military installation that's there that has some secret mission going on. Three, there is this religious organization that's there that has something interesting to do with the plot too. That triumvirate of plot elements made it pretty cool to write.