Tech-savvy Deaver's latest entry in the fan-favorite Lincoln Rhyme series, involving the brilliant quadriplegic criminologist and his partner/paramour.
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November 20, 2014 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781456115135
- File size: 381789 KB
- Duration: 13:15:23
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- English
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A bus pulls up to the sidewalk, and as the doors open, an arc of electricity flashes, leaving behind burns, blood, melted steel, and devastation. An elevator stalls, and when a passenger presses the call button, he and other passengers are burnt by another flash. Someone is using the power grid--the electrical infrastructure of the entire Northeast--to hold New York City hostage. Rhyme, Sacks, and their team of investigators must track down who's responsible. This installment in Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series introduces several life-changing elements to the quadriplegic criminologist. Dennis Boutsikaris's narration is clean, smooth, and compelling. He performs with a cool edge that invites listeners to greater levels of tension. Electrifying in its writing and its execution, THE BURNING WIRE lives up to its name. S.E.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine -
Starred review from April 19, 2010
An explosion at a Manhattan electrical power substation that destroys a bus—followed by threats of much worse violence unless Algonquin Consolidated Power and Light meets virtually impossible demands—sparks 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.
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