One Good Deed Audiobook (Free)

In this fast-paced historical thriller, #1 NY Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder — or risk time for prison.

It’s 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is normally released from Carderock Jail, he is delivered to Poca Town on parole with a brief list of do’s and a a lot longer set of don’ts: do report frequently to his parole officer, don’t go to pubs, certainly don’t consume alcohol, perform get a job–and don’t ever about One Great Deed associate with loose females.

The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer’s years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within an individual night, his seek out gainful employment–and a stiff drink–leads him to an area bar, where he is employed for what seems like a basic job: to collect a personal debt owed to a powerful regional businessman, Hank Pittleman.

Shortly Archer discovers that recovering the debt won’t end up being so easy. The indebted man has a furious grudge against Hank and won’t pay; Hank’s clever mistress offers her own designs on Archer; and both Hank and Archer’s stern parole officer, Miss Crabtree, are keeping a razor-sharp eyes on him.

Whenever a murder takes place right under Archer’s nose, police suspicions rise against the ex-convict, and Archer realizes that this crime could send him right back to prison . if he doesn’t use every skill in his arsenal to locate the real killer.