Read this novel in February and will be passing along to Library sale, but another as always excellent Baldacci read. It is an old one from 2008, 387 pages, recently acquired at a sale and like all Baldacci can be read out of order, although his one continues with the characters of the Camel Club and Oliver Stone. This could very well have been written or be applied today. It high lights coal mining, the lives, hills and folks who live there and the timely horror of rampant prescription drug abuse, opiods of today.
From page 150, " There was right and wrong. Although those lines got blurred all the time. Justice and injustice too were often all over the place, he knew. There were no easy answers and whatever road you took, be it the high, low or more likely somewhere in between, half the people would hate the result and half would applaud. And the hell of the thing was in a way they'd both be right."
Page 213, " Experience without cynicism was a sure sign your brain had dry rotted and you hadn't bothered to notice. He went into every high level meeting these days knowing there were at least three agendas and also knowing he'd only be told one of them." Sounds like bureaucracy and governmental politics of today, some things do no change.
This is another 5 *****. A page turner that I read to get a break from another book that I have been struggling to finish and needed a break in reading. Sometimes I do that, set one aside and pick up diversion. Baldacci never disappoints.
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