coolreads# Walk the Wire

Walk the Wire
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Pan Books
ISBN: 0781509874538

The FBI’s consultant, former cop and football player Amos Decker and his partner Alex Jamison are assigned to investigate a murder in rural North Dakota, a few miles from the Canadian border. The victim’s grisly remains were discovered 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.

North Dakota is the oil fracking centre of the nation and it has been a boom for the small town of London. Further down the road is a former Air Force early-warning facility that has some mysterious goings-on. Next to it is a religious commune that had employed the dead woman as a school teacher, when she wasn’t working as an escort.

Things get weirder as the FBI agents work on the case - such as the coroner/undertaker who keeps covering up clues, more killings taking place and Decker’s brother-in-law who shows up with a rich girlfriend.

The story gets more exciting when secret agent/assassin Will Robie and his partner Jessica Reel, accompanied by their boss, Blue Man, come to save Decker’s skin by knocking off a bunch of bad guys. This thriller is another ace for Baldaaci.

● Check out David Baldacci’s bio @ Biography.