As always, the bad guys eventually get their just desserts, but sometimes the good guys are among the fallen too. The latter are often based on historic true incidents, the former endear themselves to the reader almost from the first page. The events in the first novel are quite frighteningly realistic (think 9-11), the events in the second novel start with his father’s elderly sister being murdered for seeing something appallingly illegal occur, and I’m still engrossed in book three, with book four on my table to follow immediately.ĭavid Baldacci has a serious knack of inventing totally believable characters and events. Whilst his missions tend to remain State-side, his previous war experience overseas makes him unique, and the leading investigator in his field. Ex-Ranger, now a Chief Warrant Officer with the Army’s Criminal Intelligence Division, his missions involve investigating criminal activity where US soldiers are involved. The main character, John Puller, is a veteran of six tours of Afghanistan, serving his country as his war hero father and big brother have done before him. The series is set in the present day, usually around Maryland and Virginia USA. The first book in the John Puller series is entitled Zero Day, followed by The Forgotten, The Escape and concluding (for the moment) with No Man’s Land. This kind of story arc is particularly satisfying to the bookworm who enjoys following the main character/s through a succeeding number of crime thrillers. And the only person standing in his way is John Puller.Author David Baldacci tends to write five or six books in a series featuring the same hero. There, thirty years ago, the man Rogers had once been vanished too, and was replaced with a monster. With the clock ticking, he begins his own journey, one that will take him across the country to the place where all his troubles began: a mysterious building on the grounds of Fort Monroe.
intelligence organization, Puller begins a journey that will take him into his own past, to find the truth about his mother. has been accused of murdering Jackie.Īided by his brother Robert Puller, an Air Force major, and Veronica Knox, who works for a shadowy U.S.
Military investigators, armed with a letter from a friend of Jackie's, arrive in the hospital room of Puller's father-a legendary three-star now sinking into dementia-and reveal that Puller Sr. One night three decades ago, Puller's and Rogers' worlds collided with devastating results, and the truth has been buried ever since. But twenty years before that, he was at Fort Monroe. Paul Rogers has been in prison for ten years.
John Puller's mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort Monroe, Virginia, when Puller was just a boy. Special Agent John Puller, combat veteran and the army's most tenacious investigator, is back in this action-packed thriller from worldwide #1 bestselling author David Baldacci.
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