The last mile / David Baldacci.
Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution -- for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier -- when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime. Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars's case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short by tragedy. Both men's families were brutally murdered. And in both cases, another suspect came forward, years after the killing, to confess to the crime. A suspect who may or may not have been telling the truth. The confession has the potential to make Melvin Mars -- guilty or not -- a free man. Who wants Mars out of prison? And why now? But when a member of Decker's team disappears, it becomes clear that something much larger -- and more sinister -- than just one convicted criminal's life hangs in the balance.
Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades his boss to allow him to carry out an investigation into the Mars murders.
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- ISBN: 9781455586455
- ISBN: 1455586455
- ISBN: 9781455586462
- ISBN: 9781455541515
- Physical Description: 420 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2016.
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| Kenly Public Library | FIC Baldacci (Text) | 38950611006075 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mary Duncan Public Library | FIC Baldacci (Text) | 38950610996490 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield | FIC Baldacci (Text) | 38950611007065 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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