The Steel Kiss
Lincoln Rhyme Book 12
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver's gripping series that inspired the film starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington, and is now a major NBC TV series.
How do you catch a killer who can reach you anywhere - without going near you?
Detective Amelia Sachs is in pursuit when she hears the scream.
Stopping to help a man trapped in a horrific accident, Sachs has to let a suspected murderer get away.
But was it really coincidence? Did the killer make it happen?
Sachs and Lincoln Rhyme are facing a new kind of opponent:
Someone who can kill by remote control.
Someone watching every move they make . . .
'A tightly plotted masterpiece' Sun
'Flawlessly constructed and paced' The Sunday Times
'The king of suspense is back and he's done it again' Glasgow Herald
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Deaver's clever 12th Lincoln Rhyme novel (after 2014's The Skin Collector) finds the forensic expert no longer working for the NYPD. But Rhyme's lover, NYPD Major Cases detective Amelia Sachs, could use his help. She was chasing a murder suspect in a Brooklyn department store when she stopped to deal with a bizarre, fatal elevator accident. The lawyer for the wife of the man who was crushed in the elevator's gears wants Rhyme to assist in a difficult civil suit. Meanwhile, the suspect, a cunning killer, plots more attacks that employ ingenious ways to subvert modern technology. Entertaining subplots focus on the release from prison of Sachs's lover before Rhyme, Nick Carelli, who served time for robbery and assault; a private mission undertaken by Patrolman Ron Pulaski, a former prot g of Rhyme's; and the travails of Rhyme's new prot g , intern Juliette Archer. Convincing characters and an unexpected closing twist will remind readers why Deaver is one of today's top thriller writers. Author tour.
