Reading order · 7 books · 2015 to 2022
Amos Decker Books in Order
Amos Decker was a professional football player until a brutal hit left him with hyperthymesia: he can forget nothing. A former police detective, he works with an FBI task force on cases that need his unusual mind.
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Series facts
- Books
- 7
- Published
- 2015 to 2022
- First book
- Memory Man
- Latest
- Long Shadows (2022)
The reading order
Every Amos Decker book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
7 books
- 1Memory Man2015With Amos DeckerAmos Decker, a former football player who can forget nothing after a head injury, came home sixteen months ago to find his family murdered.Buy on Amazon
- 2The Last Mile2016With Amos DeckerMelvin Mars is hours from execution for the murder of his parents when another man confesses to the crime.Buy on Amazon
- 3The Fix2017With Amos DeckerAmos Decker sees a man shoot a woman dead outside FBI headquarters and then kill himself.Buy on Amazon
- 4The Fallen2018With Amos DeckerOn holiday in Baronville, Pennsylvania, a dying rust-belt town, Amos Decker finds two bodies in a neighbouring house, and soon more deaths follow.Buy on Amazon
- 5Redemption2019With Amos DeckerAmos Decker is visiting his family’s graves when a dying man approaches him, claiming he was wrongly convicted thirteen years earlier in one of Decker’s first cases as a detective.Buy on Amazon
- 6Walk the Wire2020With Amos DeckerAmos Decker and Alex Jamison are sent to London, North Dakota, a fracking boomtown, where a woman’s body has been found.Buy on Amazon
- 7Long Shadows2022With Amos DeckerAmos Decker is sent to Florida to investigate the murder of a federal judge.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Read the Decker books in order, starting with Memory Man. Decker’s grief for his family and his working life with Alex Jamison carry through the series.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Amos Decker | Alex Jamison | Ross Bogart |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Memory Man | LLead | MMajor | |
| 2 The Last Mile | LLead | MMajor | ·Minor |
| 3 The Fix | LLead | MMajor | ·Minor |
| 4 The Fallen | LLead | MMajor | ·Minor |
| 5 Redemption | LLead | MMajor | ·Minor |
| 6 Walk the Wire | LLead | MMajor | ·Minor |
| 7 Long Shadows | LLead | MMajor | ·Minor |
Characters in the Amos Decker books
4 characters from David Baldacci’s chart, with the number of Amos Decker books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Amos DeckerFormer football player with perfect memory, an FBI consultant | 7 | Memory Man 2015 |
| Alex JamisonJournalist turned FBI agent, Decker’s partner | 7 | Memory Man 2015 |
| Ross BogartFBI special agent in charge | 6 | The Last Mile 2016 |
| Melvin MarsDeath-row inmate Decker works to free | 1 | The Last Mile 2016 |