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Välj inläsare! Jakten på Amos Decker, som är den första delen i Baldaccis serie om Amos Decker, finns även inläst av Reine Brynolfsson. Amos Decker är en före detta NHL-spelare som sadlat om till polis. Fotbollskarriären avslutades abrupt i hans första NFL-match i och med en brutal tackling av en motspelare. Han är fortfarande hemsökt av en bieffekt från hjärnskadan han ådrog sig vid olyckan: diagnosen hypertymesi - han minns allt som händer honom, inklusive saker han skulle föredra att glömma. Idag är Amos Decker en bruten man.

Spring has come to Detroit's Sugartown enclave, and Amos Walker would like to feel kindly toward the human race. Unfortunately, his first case of the new season immediately leads him into trouble among the Polish settlers of neighboring Hamtramck, when old Martha Evancek hires him to look for her missing grandson. But even before Walker gets a chance to investigate, he's presented with a second case: an eminent Russian novelist who fears that someone is out to kill him.

Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager who also happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar - a semi-retired mobster who prefers to keep family business out of the newspapers. When Marla suddenly disappears, the gang boss is forced to call in private eve Amos Walker, who quickly learns his new employer doesn't take "no" for an answer when he offers a job opportunity. Unfortunately, the only clue to Marla's whereabouts is a pornographic photograph that clearly proves that she's become part of a world that disgusts even her criminal guardian....

What could be more innocent than watching old movies? For Neil Catalin, a wealthy man with a happy home, old-fashioned pictures were a hobby that became an obsession. But he wasn’t watching The Wizard of Oz. Crime movies were his passion, the sort where life is cheap and death is free, and Catalin sank himself into them as an escape from the stresses of suburbia. Now he has disappeared, and his wife believes the clue may be in his collection of gruesome classics.

ÖVER 150 MILJONER BÖCKER SÅLDA! FBI-agenten Amos Decker minns allt. Det betyder inte att han vet allt, inte ens allt om sitt eget förflutna. När han besöker hemstaden Burlington i Ohio tillsammans med FBI-kollegan Alex Jamison konfronteras han av en till synes okänd man. Namnet däremot känner Decker genast igen: Meryl Hawkins. Hawkins var Amos Deckers första mordfall. Åren i fängelse har fått Hawkins att åldras till oigenkännlighet. Trots att han nu är döende hävdar han fortfarande att han blev oskyldigt dömd för mord.

On screen, Sandy Broderick is everything a newscaster is supposed to be. He has a deep voice, a 10,000-watt smile, and the God-given ability to banter with weathermen until his ears fall off. But when the cameras turn off, he has a private problem: His 20-year old son, Bud, has disappeared. Amos Walker is going to find him. The boy and his junkie girlfriend are both gone, and Broderick is terrified - not for his son, but for his career. The station is about to do an exposé on drugs in Detroit, and the newscaster doesn’t want his boy’s addict girlfriend to get in the way of his Pulitzer.

A faithful dog lies wounded beside the mutilated body of its owner. A woman is discovered bound and gagged, dead in her own bed. Both are police officers. Both have a red rose at their side...worryingly, more will follow. Lies and accusations abound, but who is behind the murders, and why are the victims being targeted? Charlie, Hunter and the team must find the killer targeting their own, before another body is found.