Finished: The Fallen (Baldacci) The fourth book in the Memory Man series, The Fallen takes our FBI special task force agents Amos Decker and partner, Alex Jamison, to the small town of Baronville, Ohio to visit her sister and family. Even though they are supposed to be on vacation, Amos and Alex immediately get involved in the investigation of four recently murdered people. The former mill town has been falling apart for years and an opioid crisis has affected many families. With a new mail order processing distribution center (think Amazon) in the town, could it possibly be a good cover up for the massive drug ring that Amos, Alex, the local police, and the DEA stumble upon when two of the murdered people turn out to be undercover DEA agents? When Alex's brother-in-law is also killed, and then two attempts are made on the agents' lives, Amos Decker knows there is a huge conspiracy, and he sets out to figure it all out before anyone else is killed. He's got the help of a few new friends: John Baron, the son of the rich Baron family who founded Baronville and owned all the mills, but whose great-grandfather was a miserly, unethical, unhumanitarian man who let the town fall apart and didn't leave his own children any money; Agent Kemper of the DEA, a strong female who fits right in working along side Amos and all his memory quirks; and Cindy Riley, the bar owner in town, who is in love with John Baron and determined to see the town stop punishing him for his ancestor's deeds. In typical Amos Decker fashion, he is usually a step ahead of everyone else in figuring things out, but is learning to better communicate his discoveries. The drug selling/insurance scam/buried treasure plot is finally resolved, with a few surprise members of the community involved. A good book, but the series is beginning to follow the same formula a bit too much. Would love to see it break off on a tangent and maybe even have Decker fall for one of these female agents one of these days. :-)