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The Stone Monkey
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The Stone Monkey
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Wohoo, a book that I actually gave more than a "5" ;o) But this is, after all, the master (or at least one of them), Jeffrey Deaver - although "The Stone Monkey" is definitely not the best Lincoln Rhyme book that I have set my eyes on.. I tend to agree with a review that I just saw on Amazon.co.uk:"..but I felt that it was missing something. My favorite of his books, The Empty Chair, had me at the edge of my seat and the 'Oh my god' ending was amazing. This book just did not have that." Not that I have actually read "The Empty Chair" *G*, but I feel the same thing when I compare this book to some of Deaver's previous works..
The synopsis from Amazon.co.uk goes like this: Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community. Over the next forty-eight hours the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of policework - forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme. |
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