The Burning Wire: a novel

✍ Scribed by Jeffery Deaver

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster;Pocket Books
• Year: 2010;2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 242 KB
• Edition: 1st Pocket books paperack ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1451641907

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. An explosion at a Manhattan electrical power substation that destroys a busfollowed by threats of much worse violence unless Algonquin Consolidated Power and Light meets virtually impossible demandssparks Deaver's sterling ninth Lincoln Rhyme novel (after The Broken Window). Forensic expert Rhyme takes charge of looking into the fatal blast, aided by his partner and sometime lover, field agent Amelia Sachs, among others. Rhyme is able to glean many clues from the scant trace evidence left by the elusive killer at the crime scene. Meanwhile, Rhyme is also staying in close touch with Mexican army and police commander Rodolfo Luna, who's tracking dangerous assassin Richard Logan (aka the Watchmaker) in Mexico City. The twin investigations take an increasingly dangerous toll on quadriplegic Rhyme's precarious physical health. Not even the brilliant Rhyme can foresee the shocking twists the case will take in this electrically charged thriller. (June)
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From Booklist

In the latest Lincoln Rhyme thriller, Deaver rounds up the usual suspectswell, crime-solversand pits them against a shadowy perpetrator (or perhaps its a terrorist group?) who is using New York Citys electrical grid to commit murder. And if that isnt frightening enough, it looks like murder might be the least of the villains intended mayhem. The Rhyme novels follow a pretty tight format, but thats fine because its a killer format, mixing aspects of the traditional procedural with CSI-style forensic techniques. Deaver, master of the plot twist, does his usual magicno matter how hard you try, you cant figure out what hes about to spring on youand, as an added tension-intensifier, the Watchmaker, the nasty villain introduced in Cold Moon (2006), is still behind the scenes, just outside our peripheral vision. Another winner from the dependable Deaver. --David Pitt