The follow-up to Jeffery Deaver's massive bestseller The Bone Collector (w a feature film starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington) The Stone Monkey is a simply outstanding (San Jose Mercury News) addition to the Lincoln Rhyme series! First introduced in the spine-chilling vel The Bone Collector, Lincoln Rhyme dazzled readers with unparalleled forensic sleuthing--all done from the confines of a wheelchair. A famed crimilogist, paralyzed from the neck down, Rhyme compensates for his physical disability with his brains--and the arms and legs of his brilliant and beautiful protegee, Amelia Sachs. It is Amelia who walks the grid for Rhyme, acting as his eyes and ears for the famously dangerous and difficult cases chronicled in Jeffery Deaver's bestselling vels The Bone Collector, The Coffin Dancer, and The Empty Chair. Now the awe-inspiring duo returns in The Stone Monkey. Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln and Amelia manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City and carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the torious human smuggler and killer kwn as the Ghost. But when the Ghost's capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race against time: to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have escaped from the ship and vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinatown.
Jeffery Deaver is the author of two collections of short stories and twenty-eight previous suspense novels. His most recent #1 international bestseller is Carte Blanche, the newest James Bond novel. Deaver is best known for his Kathryn Dance and Lincoln Rhyme thrillers.Deaver has been nominated for seven Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America, an Anthony Award, and a Gumshoe Award. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in North Carolina.