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Thriller · 2019 · PG-13

Long Road to Mercy

by David Baldacci

A hiker vanishes in the Grand Canyon — and the secret she carried could topple a nation

For14+GenreThrillerLength400 pagesRead time~10.5 hours

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Violence

Some

Murders and violence depicted in investigative context

Language

Some

Occasional mild profanity

Sexual Content

Barely any

Romance is minimal and non-explicit

Substance Use

Barely any

No significant substance use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Psychological weight of memory-related trauma and conspiracy

What this book is about

FBI agent Amos Decker, with his perfect memory and damaged past, is dispatched to Kingman, Arizona when hikers disappear from the Grand Canyon. What begins as a missing persons case explodes into a national security crisis involving foreign agents and buried government secrets. The first book in the Amos Decker series establishes its brooding, methodical protagonist.

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Violence in thriller context

National security themes

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