Baldacci builds intrigue from the very beginning while showing behind the veil of two federal agencies’ investigations. He shows insight into character’s thoughts as things unfold. He drops hints keeping you turning the next page and building suspense for an unpredictable ending.

A really, really good book. I love this series, even though I missed reading the 2nd part but so far I love it and plan to catch up on the other parts soon!

David Baldacci is a prolific writer and mush as I love his John Pullar and Will Robie series, I must admit to having a particular soft spot for Amos Decker. The Fix is Book 3 in the Decker series and it’s a cracker.
When Walter Dabney shoots school teacher Anne Berkshire outside the FBI headquarters before turning the gun on himself, Amos Decker, who witnessed the deaths, and his team are tasked to investigate. It’s not long before the team discover anomalies in the lives of both victim and shooter and soon the case becomes a multi- agency affair.
What I love most about Baldacci’s writing is his brilliant characterisation. It’s not just that Decker suffers from both hyperthymesia and synaesthesia, it’s the way Baldacci explores the effects of these conditions through Decker, an active investigating FBI detective and through his relationships with his team. The fascinating subject of how the wiring of the brain is such a delicate thing and how trauma to said wirings can affect all aspects of our personalities. With Decker’s fascinating back story, we see him struggle to express and deal with the more ‘human’ emotions most of us take for granted. Alongside that we see his developing relationships with his coleagues and how , despite being in his corner, they are still affected by Decker’s inability to express himself or to conform to some of the social niceties. This warts and all approach makes Decker a very real character who gets into your heart and has you

firmly in his corner.
As a flawed character, Amos Decker is both distant and yet tantalisingly real. His thought processes are mesmerising and his focus laudable. He is shrouded in sadness, yet he is very real and in The Fix, Baldacci imbues him with a very real feeling of hope.
In Decker, Baldacci has hit on a character with a unique premise that takes a typical FBI investigation to another plane.
I would happily recommend any of Baldacci books to any crime fiction fan, but, in case you hadn’t noticed, his Amos Decker series is, for me the absolute tops!

David Baldacci! Wow! How is it I've never read anything by him before now? "The Fix" is an absolutely amazing mystery/thriller that I literally could not put down. (Even though it's not exactly a short book, I finished it in just a couple of days -- very unusual for me.) Amos Decker is one of the most intriguing characters I've met in fiction, and I really enjoyed getting to know him. But Baldacci has a wonderful touch with character development, and even the minor players in this tale were interesting and believable. And he keeps you guessing right up to the final pages -- I kept thinking I had it all figured out, only to find another plot shake-up on the next page. It was lovely! I'm recommending it to all my friends who read thrillers (and even those who don't). This might have been my first David Baldacci read, but it certainly won't be my last! I'm so grateful to the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the chance to discover a new favorite author.

THE FIX is a mystery suspense thriller focusing on the how two federal agencies work to solve a murder and a suicide. The stoyline focuses of the FBI’s investigation of two individuals with intriguing backgrounds. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) enters the investigation focusing how the two individuals might have been involved in the theft of data that will endanger National Security. David Baldacci introduces his readers to his team of protagonists, Alex Jamison, Ross Bogart, Todd Milligan, and Amos Decker, all FBI agents who are part of investigative team focusing of unusual hot cases. Baldacci provides the backstories of each of the team and continues to update readers with additional information as the story progresses. Throughout his story he gives specific details of Amos’s special talents and of his partnership with Alex. Readers are set close to both and are able to see and feel what they both are thinking as they follow up on the thrilling investigation. The main story focuses on following Amos and Alex as they develop leads, using Amos’s insightful thoughts forming theories as to how unfolding events fit into their investigation.

The author bring several support characters both good and bad into his toryline giving his readers details of each characters’ history and the roles they play as he introduces them to the storyline. Baldacci creates several subplots changing the storylines direction. Readers are kept on the edge of their seats as they follow details of Amos’s ability to reconstruct situations and revisit different events in his mind, coming up with logical conclusions that keep the storyline moving forward.

THE FIX builds intrigue from the very beginning and takes readers behind the scenes of two federal agencies’ investigations. The author keeps building his readers’ interest as he provides interesting insight to what characters are thinking as events unfold on a professional level as well as showing the personal side of the characters. Baldacci drops hints keeping readers turning to the next page to find answers. The investigation build suspense as THE FIX comes to an unpredictable ending.

The Fix is the third book in the Amos Decker series. You don't have to read the previous books to enjoy this one. Personally, haven't I read the first book yet (although I'm eyeing right now since it's on my desk waiting to be read).

Amos Decker and his team have a new case, a man shoots and kills a woman outside FBI headquarters and then he shoots himself. But why? The man and the woman have no connection to each other and no one can understand why he did it. This is a strange case that soon gets even stranger when Harper Brown, an agent of the Defense Intelligence Agency gets involved with the case, first trying to get Amos to back down and then more and less helping them.

As usual, has Baldacci written an interesting thriller. What I love about this book not only the strange case, but small things like Marvin Mars showing up in the story and Decker and Jamison moving in together as roommates in a building that Mars bought. Just roommates, they are just friends, although Jamison seems sometimes a bit "fond" of Decker. However, Decker is not a man that's ready to move on from the tragic murder of his wife and daughter especially since with his extraordinary memory never can forget the sight of finding them. What he needs is friends and that's what he got in Mars and Jamison.

I liked how weird this case is, how they slowly had to unravel it to find out the motive for the killing. Did I see the ending coming? Partly to be honest. I was not totally surprised by the twist towards the end when we learn just how everything is connected. Sometimes, the answer is in front of your eyes all the time and I have read so many thrillers that I felt it was quite obvious who the person behind it all was. That doesn't mean that I did not enjoy reading the book, but some twist were just a bit too obvious...