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Title details for The Burning Wire by Jeffery Deaver - Available

The Burning Wire

#9 in series

by Jeffery Deaver
Dennis Boutsikaris
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From New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver—Lincoln Rhyme is back, and on the trail of a killer whose weapon of choice cripples New York City with fear. Now a major television series starring Russel Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel, and Michael Imperioli.
The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire.

When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for his successful apprehension of the most devious criminals, is immediately tapped for the investigation. Long a quadriplegic, he assembles NYPD detective Amelia Sachs and officer Ron Pulaski as his eyes, ears and legs on crime sites, and FBI agent Fred Dellray as his undercover man on the street. As the attacks continue across the city at a sickening pace, and terrifying demand letters begin appearing, the team works desperately against time and with maddeningly little forensic evidence to try to find the killer. Or is it killers...?

Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhyme's net.

Juggling two massive investigations against a cruel ticking clock takes a toll on Rhyme's health. Soon Rhyme is fighting on yet another front—and his determination to work despite his physical limitations threatens to drive away his closest allies when he needs them most...

  • Creators

  • Series

    Lincoln Rhyme

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    June 1, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781442304239
      • File size: 381232 KB
      • Duration: 13:14:13

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      A bus pulls up to the sidewalk, and as the doors open, an arc of electricity flashes, leaving behind burns, blood, melted steel, and devastation. An elevator stalls, and when a passenger presses the call button, he and other passengers are burnt by another flash. Someone is using the power grid--the electrical infrastructure of the entire Northeast--to hold New York City hostage. Rhyme, Sacks, and their team of investigators must track down who's responsible. This installment in Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series introduces several life-changing elements to the quadriplegic criminologist. Dennis Boutsikaris's narration is clean, smooth, and compelling. He performs with a cool edge that invites listeners to greater levels of tension. Electrifying in its writing and its execution, THE BURNING WIRE lives up to its name. S.E.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 19, 2010
      An explosion at a Manhattan electrical power substation that destroys a bus—followed by threats of much worse violence unless Algonquin Consolidated Power and Light meets virtually impossible demands—sparks Deaver's sterling ninth Lincoln Rhyme novel (after The Broken Window
      ). Forensic expert Rhyme takes charge of looking into the fatal blast, aided by his partner and sometime lover, field agent Amelia Sachs, among others. Rhyme is able to glean many clues from the scant trace evidence left by the elusive killer at the crime scene. Meanwhile, Rhyme is also staying in close touch with Mexican army and police commander Rodolfo Luna, who's tracking dangerous assassin Richard Logan (aka the Watchmaker) in Mexico City. The twin investigations take an increasingly dangerous toll on quadriplegic Rhyme's precarious physical health. Not even the brilliant Rhyme can foresee the shocking twists the case will take in this electrically charged thriller.

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