Aug 10, 2020

One Good Deed by David Baldacci 8/10)

A new character for Baldacci, a man Aloysius Archer, a WWII vet who found himself on the wrong side of helping a young lady escape her family.  She said she was 21 but she lied.  As a result, her father had Archer put in prison for kidnapping a minor.  He’s out, on parole, and sent to a city he’s never heard of before.  There, he immediately runs into a man who hires him to collect on a debt or repossess the collateral.  He then meets his parole officer, get a list of what he’s not allowed to do (including going to bars, where he was hired).  It becomes obvious fairly soon in the story that there are two rich and opposed men in the town, one is the man who hired Archer and the other is the man Archer is supposed to collect the debt from.  Archer’s boss is keeping the daughter of the other man.  That man refuses to pay the debt.  For some reason the wife of Archer’s boss knows about the affair and does nothing about it.  Then Archer’s boss is killed.  Then the other man is killed.  There are multiple players with axes to grind in both directions.  The story revolves around Archer’s parole not being violated while he tries to figure out who the real killer is to clear his own name.

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