Synopses & Reviews
Bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver is back with a brand-new Lincoln Rhyme thriller. To save the life of a young girl who's being stalked by a ruthless hit man, Lincoln and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, are called upon to do the impossible: solve a truly "cold case" one that's 140 years old.
The Twelfth Card is a two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to outguess Thompson Boyd by all appearances a nondescript, innocuous man, but one whose past has turned him into a killing machine as unfeeling and cunning as a wolf. Boyd is after Geneva Settle, a high school girl from Harlem, and it's up to Lincoln and Amelia to figure out why.
The motive may have to do with a term paper that Geneva is writing about her ancestor, Charles Singleton, a former slave. A teacher and farmer in New York State, Charles was active in the early civil rights movement but was arrested for theft and disgraced. Assisted by their team, Fred Dellray, Mel Cooper and Lon Sellitto (suffering badly from a case of nerves due to a near miss by the killer), Lincoln and Amelia work frantically to figure out where the hired gun will strike next and stop him, all the while trying to determine what actually happened on that hot July night in 1868 when Charles was arrested. What went on at the mysterious meetings he attended in Gallows Heights, a neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that was a tense mix of wealthy financiers, political crooks like Boss Tweed and working-class laborers and thugs? And, most important for Geneva Settle's fate, what was the "secret" that tormented Charles's every waking hour?
Deaver's inimitable plotting keeps all these stories the past and the present racing at a lightning-fast clip as we learn stunning revelations that strike at the very heart of the U.S. Constitution and that could have disastrous consequences for today's human and civil rights in America. With breathtaking twists and multiple surprises that will keep readers on tenterhooks until the last page, this is Deaver's most compelling Lincoln Rhyme book to date.
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"Deaver is as tricky as ever, strewing secrets broadcast among good guys as well as bad....There's no question...about Deaver's unexcelled ability to pull the wool over your eyes." Kirkus Reviews
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"Deaver, who must have been born with a special plot-twist gene, somehow manages, in every book, to pull two or three big surprises out of his hat....[A] typically well-written, suspenseful story." Booklist
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"The personal lives of brilliant, irascible...Lincoln Rhyme and his assistant/girlfriend...Amelia Sachs are as compelling as ever, but the sluggish plot of The Twelfth Card doesn't offer them the usual dazzling twists and complications to showcase their talents." Cleveland Plain Dealer
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"The grand master of plot twists, Jeffery Deaver deals out almost more than it seems would be possible to cram into a story just 395 pages long. And rest assured, not one of those pages is a bust." BookReporter.com
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"A master of ticking-bomb suspense." People
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"Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme novels...are masterpieces of modern criminology." Philadelphia Daily News
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"Deaver's labyrinthine plots are astonishing." The New York Times Book Review
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Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protege, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history in the bestseller that proves "there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver" (San Jose Mercury News).
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Lincoln Rhyme & Amelia Sachs are back A hitman is out to kill a young girl in Harlem. In order to save her Lincoln has to solve a cold case that's over 150 years old.
Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protege, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history in the bestseller that proves there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver (San Jose Mercury News)."
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI. "Deaver's labyrinthine plots are astonishing"(The New York Times Book Review) in this bestselling thriller featuring a hitman who is out to kill a young girl in Harlem and in order to save her, Lincoln Rhyme has to solve a cold case that's over 150 years old.
Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his prot g , Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history--in the New York Times bestseller that proves "there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver" (San Jose Mercury News).
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Lincoln Rhyme & Amelia Sachs are back in paperback! A hitman is out to kill a young girl in Harlem. In order to save her Lincoln has to solve a cold case that's over 150 years old.
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Bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme must save the life of a young girl by solving a truly “cold case”—one that’s 150 years old.The Twelfth Card is a two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan, as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protÉgÉe Amelia Sachs try to outguess a ruthless professional killer who is after Geneva Settle, a high school girl from Harlem…and it’s up to Lincoln and Amelia to figure out why.
The motive may have to do with a term paper that Geneva is writing about her ancestor, Charles Singleton, a former slave who was active in the early civil rights movement, but was arrested for theft and disgraced. What actually happened on that night in 1868 when Charles was arrested? What went on at the mysterious meetings he attended in Gallows Heights, a neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that was a tense mix of wealthy financiers, political crooks, and working-class laborers and thugs? And what was the “secret” that tormented Charles’s every waking hour?
Deaver’s inimitable plotting keeps these stories—the past and the present—racing at a lightning-fast clip, with stunning revelations that strike at the very heart of the U.S. Constitution.
About the Author
Jeffery Deaver is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one suspense novels, and the originator of the acclaimed detective hero Lincoln Rhyme, featured in the bestsellers The Vanished Man, The Stone Monkey, The Empty Chair, The Coffin Dancer, and The Bone Collector. His new Lincoln Rhyme thriller, The Cold Moon, is forthcoming in hardcover from Simon & Schuster. His short story collection Twisted is currently available from Pocket Books. A former attorney, Deaver has been hailed as "the best psychological thriller writer around" (The Times, London).