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The forgotten Cover Image Large print book Large print book

The forgotten

Baldacci, David. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781455522644 (hc. : lg. print)
  • Physical Description: 628 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st large print ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Grand Central Large Print c2012.

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Subject: United States. -- Army Criminal Investigation Command -- Fiction
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Genre: Suspense fiction.

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  • 13 of 15 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Sechelt/Gibsons.

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  • 1 current hold with 15 total copies.
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Gibsons Public Library LP FIC BALD (Text) 30886000499109 Large print fiction Volume hold Checked out 2024-06-22
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  • Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2013 February #2
    "The next time you go on R and R, pick a safer place than Paradise." Mysterian Baldacci (The Sixth Man, 2011, etc.) serves up a gently ironic tale of mayhem, this time set in idyllic Florida. John Puller is a classic Baldacci character, a combat-wise Army special agent whose life has been spent in service. His ailing father, a retired general, has received a letter from his older sister, who has just died under questionable circumstances, and though it doesn't reveal much, it's enough for Puller to head south and begin poking around. Before long, he runs afoul of, then makes alliances with, the local gendarmerie. And because Puller is, after all, a hairy-chested dude who knows his way around guns and conspiracies and all that, pretty soon there's a dame involved. Two, even. Baldacci works all the angles with due skill; it's not Hammett or Chandler, but the prose is serviceable, the tale broadly entertaining. What is best is his showing Puller's line of reasoning as he attempts to figure out just what it was that his elderly aunt saw that led to her death--and when he finally does, how he deals with the culprit, who, suffice it to say, looks very good in a tight-fitting uniform. The clichés are refreshingly few, and Baldacci writes sympathetically of the not-so-golden years at the end of life, when Puller's father, once the commander of 100,000 men in battle, is "now intently watching a TV show where people guessed the prices of everyday stuff in an attempt to win more stuff." A solid thriller--though someone tell the fact checker that Bulgaria was never part of the Soviet Union. Copyright Kirkus 2013 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved.
  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews Newsletter
    Last year's first John Puller thriller debuted in the top spot on the New York Times best sellers list and so far has sold an impressive 237,000 copies in ebooks alone. So fans will be waiting for this second in the series. Here, Puller doesn't believe that his Aunt Betsy's drowning death in her backyard pool was an accident-she sent a letter before she died saying that something was scaring her-and starts investigating. Basic thriller premise, Baldacci writing, buy multiples. - "Six Thrillers," LJ Reviews 5/17/12 (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2012 June #1

    Last year's first John Puller thriller debuted in the top spot on the New York Times best sellers list, so fans will be waiting for this second in the series. Here, Puller doesn't believe that his Aunt Betsy's drowning death in her backyard pool was an accident—she sent a letter before she died saying that something was scaring her—and starts investigating. Basic thriller premise, Baldacci writing, buy multiples.

    [Page 78]. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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