In a race against time, Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer - Youling the Ghost. Can they stop the Ghost before he murders again?
Psychologist Aaron Matthews once used his talent to talk anyone into doing anything to help people. Now he's using it in a deadly scheme of revenge. His target is former trial lawyer Tate Collier. Matthews knows the easiest way to destroy his adversary is to strike at the point of least resistance--which for Tate is his teenage daughter, Megan. When Megan disappears, the sins of Tate's past come back to haunt him. Aaron Matthews is a man with a gift: he can talk anyone into doing almost anything. As a psychologist he used that talent to help people. Now he's using it against one man for revenge. With former trial lawyer Tate Collier as his target, the brilliant, ruthless Matthews knows the easiest way to destroy his adversary is to strike at the point of least resistance, which for Collier is his teenage daughter.
In his most gripping thriller yet, Jeffery Deaver takes readers on a terrifying ride into two ingenious minds...that of a physically challenged detective and the scheming killer he must stop. The detective was the former head of forensics at the NYPD, but is now a quadriplegic who can only exercise his mind. The killer is a man whose obsession with old New York helps him choose his next victim. Now, with the help of a beautiful young cop, this diabolical killer must be stopped before he can kill again!
Au large de long island, un cargo transportant des émigrés chinois clandestins est sur le point d'être arraisonné par les garde-côtes. Le passeur est un trafiquant d'hommes doublé d'un serial killer. surnommé le fantôme, il est traqué depuis des années par les services de police du monde entier. pour échapper à son arrestation imminente et se débarrasser des témoins gênants, le fantôme enferme l'équipage et les clandestins dans la cale, avant de faire sauter le cargo. mais il y a des survivants... qui vont se réfugier dans l'enclave quasi impénétrable de chinatown, à new york. Une course de vitesse s'engage alors entre le fbi - en l'occurrence le célèbre criminologue lincoln rhyme et sa coéquipière amelia sachs - et le tueur. qui va retrouver les rescapés le premier ? le bal des fantômes peut commencer...
It's the night of the full Cold Moon -- the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower Manhattan, the first in a series of victims of a man calling himself the Watchmaker. This killer's obsession with time drives him to plan the murders with the precision of fine timepieces, and the victims die prolonged deaths while an eerie clock ticks away their last minutes on earth. Lincoln Rhyme, Amelia Sachs and the rest of the crew are tapped to handle the case and stop the Watchmaker and his partner, Vincent Reynolds, a repulsive character with a special interest in the female victims of the killer. Amelia is not only Lincoln's eyes and ears at crime scenes on the Watchmaker case, but she's now running her own homicide investigation--her first case as lead detective. The policewoman's unwavering efforts in pursuing the killers of a businessman, who left behind a wife and son, sets into motion clockwork gears of its own, with consequences reaching to people and events that will endanger not only many lives but Lincoln's and Amelia's future together.
Lincoln Rhyme, está en un centro universitario especializado en neurología a la espera de una operación que podría mejorar su estado. Cuando le piden que colabore con la policía de Tanners Corner, una pequeña ciudad de Carolina del Norte, en la búsqueda de una chica secuestrada, no sabe que al aceptar pondrá en peligro su vida y la de su colega Amelia Sachs. El secuestrador es un chico conflictivo, cuyos padres han muerto en un misterioso accidente automovilístico. Es además muy aficionado a los insectos. Su forma de vida hace que se le culpe de todas las cosas extrañas que han ocurrido en la ciudad, incluidas algunas muertes.Desde un laboratorio improvisado, Lincoln, se enfrenta a la impaciencia de la justicia por resolver este nuevo y espeluznante caso.
"New York Times" bestsellers Lawrence Block and Jeffrey Deaver each provided a brand-new, never-before-published tale for this unique collection of stories edited by New York Times bestselling author and mystery legend Ed McBain. "Keller's Adjustment," by Lawrence Block: Block returns to everyone's favorite hitman, Keller, from his bestsellers The Hit Man and The Hit List. In the Aftermath of 9/11, Keller is questioning his life and the choices he's made, dealing out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other. "Forever" by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop. He's a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff's Department. When wealthy county resident's begin killing themselves one after another, Simms begins to believe that there is something more at play. And what he discovers will change his life . . . forever.
