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Deaver, Jeff The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme Novels (Paperback))
Signet Book April 1, 1998 0-451-18845-4 / 9780451188458 Paperback Good
Deaver (A Maiden's Grave) is too fond of gimmicks. They range in this novel from the extreme (his detective here, Lincoln Rhyme, is a quadriplegic who can move only one finger) to the moderately eccentric (beautiful policewom an Amelia Sachs, who acts as Rhyme's arms and legs, suffers from arthritis) . And his villain, a serial killer who models his crimes on ones he finds i n a book on criminal life in old New York, has an uncomfortable way of slay ing each of his victims in ways guaranteed to stop the heart or turn the st omach: buried alive, flayed by high-pressure steam, eaten by hungry rats, b urned alive, attacked by mad dogs. All this takes place in the course of on e busy New York weekend as the killer helpfully leaves playful little clues as to where he's going to strike next and Rhyme uses his immense savvy (an d a battery of computerized testing tools) to figure it out. The whole affa ir, in fact, is incredibly silly, though the headlong narrative, with Sachs arriving in the nick of time (driving at 80 mph through New York streets) to perform rescues that seem to belong in a comic strip rather than a novel , never lets up, and there is plenty of genuine forensic knowledge in evide nce. There are dramatic switcheroos up to the very last page, and a climact ic battle to the death that might make even teenage boys wince.
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350.00 JPY
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