Book review: David Baldacci offers a twisted but satisfying thriller that brings together characters from two of his best series.
WALK THE WIRE
Author: David Baldacci
Grand Central, 420 Pages, $29
Notice: Do not read the final pages first.
"Walk The Wire" David Baldacci’s latest Amos Decker thriller may be the most odd he has ever produced. Not that it’s bad. Fans will rejoice at some of the idiosyncrasies, but they, along with "normal" readers, will have to be patient with the many storylines.
The FBI’s high-profile consultant, former cop and football player Amos Decker and his lovely partner and roommate Alex Jamison are assigned to investigate a murder in rural North Dakota, a few miles from the Canadian border. Why? They haven’t a clue. The victim’s grisly remains were found out on the cold, stark Great Plains by a hunter tracking a wolf. She had been butchered and her skin peeled back as if she had been autopsied.
Like much of the latest product from his compatriots, Baldacci has given us deep insight into a controversial issue. North Dakota is the oil fracking center of the nation, so we get a blow by blow on how it is done and what adverse effects it brings. But fracking has been a boom for the small town of London, making its city fathers very rich and very strange.
Down the road is a sort-of-former Air Force early-warning facility that has some mysterious goings-on. It butts up to a religious commune that had employed the dead woman as a school teacher, when she wasn’t working as an escort (read: prostitute).
Things get curiousier and curiousier. The coroner/undertaker keeps covering up clues and Decker’s brother-in-law shows up with a rich hottie. And the deeper our intrepid investigators go, the hotter (and stranger) it gets.
We think. Until in walks super-secret agent/assassin Will Robie and his partner Jessica Reel, accompanied by their super-secret boss Blue Man (from another popular Baldacci series) to save Decker’s skin by knocking off a bunch of very bad guys.
What fun!
Tim O’Connell lives at Ponte Vedra.
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