The Vanished Man: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
Lincoln Rhymes and Amelia Sachs may have met their match. A master illusionist is murdering people, and with each mocking sleight of hand, he is moving closer to the ultimate vanishing act. Wheelchair-bound quadriplegic Rhymes and his protégé know what game the killer they dub "the Conjurer" is...
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Lincoln Rhymes and Amelia Sachs may have met their match. A master illusionist is murdering people, and with each mocking sleight of hand, he is moving closer to the ultimate vanishing act. Wheelchair-bound quadriplegic Rhymes and his protégé know what game the killer they dub "the Conjurer" is playing, but they can't get beyond the smoke and mirrors without exposing themselves. With its likable characters and breakneck action, this is a dazzling follow-up to Deaver's The Stone Monkey.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780743245685 (0743245687)
Publish date: March 11th 2003
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Series: Lincoln Rhyme (#5)
I can honestly say I am surprised that I loved this book. I thought the last two Rhyme books were seriously off and I didn't even know if I could continue with this one, but I did. Glad I bought it. We have Rhyme and Sachs investigating a case in which a murderer has someone escaped from what appear...
Murder mystery with a magician and enough twists and turns to keep me guessing throughout.
I really liked the magic part of this story. I thought the history of various magicians and tricks was obviously well researched and was very interesting.
Good book and an entertaining read but was about 50 pages too long in my opinion - story seemed to drag on a bit after it had really concluded and I felt a lot of the characters were superflous and just there a bit for window dressing without having much in the way of charecterisation to make them i...
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