Aloysius Archer

Title:

One Good Deed

Series:

Aloysius Archer

Author:

David Baldacci

Genre:

Thriller

Publisher:

Grand Central Publishing

Release Date:

29th July, 2019

Format:

Kindle

Pages:

416

Source:

BookForums 2023

The first book of a new series, a new character – Aloysius Archer. Having already read the two sequels, I can assure you, this is a character that shall stay with you for long. I truly have enjoyed the Aloysius Archer Series to the core.

Back from war & a subsequent imprisonment for a crime he hadn’t committed, Aloysius Archer finds himself in Poca City serving a 3 year parole. On a casual visit to the bar, he crosses paths with Hank Pittleman – a wealthy individual who virtually owns majority of Poca. The casual small talk lands Archer an assignment to retrieve for Pittleman the loan collateral from his rival Lucas Tuttle. And thereon, the story effortlessly draws you …

My first book of David Baldacci. I had been wanting to read one for a long while as he falls into the same broad genre as Girsham or Archer style fiction. As a first, I ain’t disappointed. A good suspense thriller with twists and turns to keep your interest invested.

Aloysius Archer, freshly put of prison is seeking apprenticeship with former FBI agent Willie Dash and is on his way to California to meet him. Along the way, he stops at Reno “The biggest little city in the world” – as it is called. It makes for an interesting read the people he meets there & how he finds a companion in Liberty Callahan, an aspiring actress. The instances in this city of Reno very subtly make known the goodness in Archer. Based in the 1940s & just after the war, the book has a cow boyish feel about it …

The 3rd book in the Aloysius Archer Series, Dream Town carries forward the adventurous & lethally dangerous journey of PI Archer as he continues to strive towards making this world a better place, notwithstanding the threats to his own life, miraculously escaping death on more than one occasion.

The story picks up from where The Gambling Man ended, except that 3 years have passed since. And Archer is now on his way to LA to meet his friend and aspiring actress from the previous book – Liberty Callahan. And as he does so, he finds himself unwittingly a part of a complex and dangerous ploy with it’s roots running deep. The story thus makes it’s transition from the dark undertone of Bay Town from the previous book to a bright & glittering LA – the city of dreams.

It was revelling to see the old characters return! The …