Our book discussion for Wednesday, August 21, The Fix by David Baldacci
Place TBD. Generic book discussions questions are below that. I was unable to find discussion questions specific to this book. Please bring a couple question.
Synopsis: Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.
Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team can find absolutely no connection between the shooter--a family man with a successful consulting business--and his victim, a schoolteacher. Nor is there a hint of any possible motive for the attack.
Enter Harper Brown. An agent of the Defense Intelligence Agency, she orders Decker to back off the case. The murder is part of an open DIA investigation, one so classified that Decker and his team aren't cleared for it.
But they learn that the DIA believes solving the murder is now a matter of urgent national security. Critical information may have been leaked to a hostile government--or worse, an international terrorist group--and an attack may be imminent.
Questions:
1. Were you immediately engaged with the book, or did it take you a while?
2. Does the book remind you of any other books or writers?
3. Who is your favorite character?
4. Describe the main characters personality traits:
a. How has the past shaped their lives?
b. Do you admire or disapprove of them?
c. Do they remind you of people you know?
5. Discuss the plot:
a. Is the story interesting?
b. Is the story plot driven?
c. Is the book a "page turner" or does it unfold slowly?
6. Discuss the book’s structure:
a. Does the time line move forward chronologically?
b. Is it a continuous story – or is it interlocking short stories?
c. Is there a single viewpoint or shifting viewpoints?
d. Why did the author tell the story this way?
7. What main ideas or themes does the author explore?
8. If you were to guess at a formative experience in the author’s life based on this book, what would you guess?
9. If you were to sum up this book in one tweet, what would you say in 140 characters?
10. Is the ending satisfying? Has the book changed you? Have you learned something?