The Twelfth Card A Lincoln Rhyme Novel Unknown - 2006 - 1st Edition

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A New York Times BestsellerBestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver is back. . . . Lincoln and his prote ge, 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.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. Jeffery Deaver is a five-time Edgar Award nominee and an Anthony Award nominee. A three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year. As William Jefferies, he is the author of several other novels. Jeffery Deaver is the author of many suspense novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Vanished Man, The Stone Monkey, The Devil's Teardrop, and The Bone Collector. Jeffery Deaver lives in Virginia and California.