Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case
yet in this newest installment of Jeffrey Deaver's New York Times
bestselling series.
A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight.
A miniature hangman's noose left at the scene. A nine-year-old girl, the
only witness to the crime. With a crime scene this puzzling, forensic
expertise of the highest order is absolutely essential. Lincoln Rhyme
and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate.
Soon the case takes a stranger turn: a recording surfaces of the victim
being slowly hanged, his desperate gasps the backdrop to an eerie piece
of music. The video is marked as the work of The Composer...
Despite their best efforts, the suspect gets away. So when a similar
kidnapping occurs on a dusty road outside Naples, Italy, Rhyme and Sachs
don't hesitate to rejoin the hunt.
But the search is now a complex case of international cooperation--and
not all those involved may be who they seem. Sachs and Rhyme find
themselves playing a dangerous game, with lives all across the globe
hanging in the balance.