{"id":5358,"date":"2023-05-17T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5358"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:20:05","slug":"book-talk-baldacci-long-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/book-talk-baldacci-long-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Baldacci, \u2018Long Shadows\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5358\" class=\"elementor elementor-5358\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-592c889f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"592c889f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6431e525 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6431e525\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It\u2019s been a while since David Baldacci wrote his last \u201cMemory Man\u201d novel, but I think that \u201cLong Shadows\u201d (2022, 435 pages in hardback) \u2014 the seventh book in the series \u2014 can be read as a stand-alone book. As usual, I suggest that the series be read in order. However, the author gives enough background in the narrative so that the reader never feels lost.<\/p><p>In this edition, Amos Decker (the Memory Man) approaches his new case with a number of conflicts. First, he\u2019s been notified by the Cognitive Institute that certain changes might be occurring in his brain. A former professional football player, Decker suffers from two conditions that resulted from a game injury to his head: he has hyperthymesia (which causes him to have total recall of everything he sees or hears) and synesthesia (which causes him to see certain things in neon colors, with death being electric blue). Second, he\u2019s been sent to Florida to take over a case that should be handled by the local FBI agent. And third, he\u2019s been paired with a new partner, and Decker hates change.<\/p><p>His new partner is Special Agent Frederica (Freddy) White, a diminutive African American single mother who has a double black belt in karate. Initially, Decker and White go together like oil and water, and they look like Mutt and Jeff, with Decker being the towering hulk and White seeming like Minnie Mouse. And, on top of everything else, the case that they\u2019ve been sent to investigate is very strange.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since David Baldacci wrote his last \u201cMemory Man\u201d novel, but I think that \u201cLong Shadows\u201d (2022, 435 pages in hardback) \u2014 the seventh book in the series \u2014 can be read as a stand-alone book. As usual, I suggest that the series be read in order. However, the author gives enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[32,43],"class_list":["post-5358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-culture","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}