The Watchmaker’s Hand
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Lincoln Rhyme is back, and this time he’s in danger, in the brand new crime thriller from Jeffery Deaver, bestselling author of The Final Twist
'The master-plotter Deaver cranks up the tension to fever pitch' A Daily Mail Thriller of the year
'Pulsating' A Waterstones Best thriller of 2023
A CITY IN TURMOIL
Looming over the Manhattan skyline, a lone crane comes crashing down into the city, sending panic radiating across New York City.
A DEADLY CONSPIRACY
The NYPD believes a political group is behind the sabotage and turns to Lincoln Rhyme for help. He knows this is just the beginning.
A RACE AGAINST TIME
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs must race to stop further attacks before more chaos is unleashed upon the city. Watching Rhyme from the shadows is the elusive assassin The Watchmaker, and he’s preparing to strike…
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Praise for THE WATCHMAKER'S HAND
‘Lincoln Rhyme returns in this top-shelf thriller.. the writing is superb, the characters intriguing, the stories spellbinding, and the plot twists shocking. BOOKLIST
‘The Watchmaker’s Hand is engineered with typical Deaver precision. The plot barrels along with numerous unexpected twists and turns. I loved it!’ KATHY REICHS, author of the Temperance Brennan Bones Series
'Jeffery Deaver is a master storyteller. His characters and plotting are second to none. One of the true giants of the genre' STEVE CAVANAGH
'Deaver masterfully delivers another pulse-pounding Lincoln Rhyme thriller that takes you on a frenzied ride through a New York City teetering on the edge of chaos … This is a high-octane, nail-biter of a read that solidifies Deaver's standing as the virtuoso of the modern crime thriller.' MARK DAWSON
About the author
Jeffery Deaver is the No.1 international bestselling author of more than forty novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Undercooked plotting muddies Deaver's bloated 16th thriller featuring Lincoln Rhyme (after The Midnight Lock), in which the quadriplegic NYPD detective faces off against a master criminal from his past. At the start, Rhyme is hoping to close a months-old case involving the theft of confidential records about the city's infrastructure. The investigation takes on added urgency when someone sabotages the counterweight systems on a construction crane in Manhattan, killing one worker. After that attack, the mayor receives an email from an anonymous group called the Kommunalka Project threatening a similar disaster every 24 hours if he doesn't create an affordable housing nonprofit and transfer a list of properties to its operations. While Rhyme races to anticipate the Kommunalka Project's next move, evidence emerges indicating that his old adversary, a brilliant murderer known as the Watchmaker, might be pulling the strings. Deaver occasionally achieves the grandeur of the best hero-villain rematches, but too often, he takes the wind out of his sails with lazy plot contrivances, including tough to swallow lapses in judgment from the otherwise unassailable Watchmaker. Only diehard series fans need apply.
