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The Burning Wire

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New York is being held to ransom. Manhattan's electricity grid has been the victim of a horrific attack . . . and more are planned.

While the FBI and Homeland Security try to determine who's behind the carnage, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs race to decode the forensics in order to prevent the next assault.

But all is not what it seems. Electricity can be as lethal as it is vital, and Lincoln Rhyme soon finds he's up against a merciless killer with a unique weapon - one that can be found in everyone's home and office.

And in the meantime, one of the few criminals to have ever slipped Rhyme's net is under surveillance in Mexico. The deadly assassin known as the Watchmaker has set his murderous sights on innocent victims, whose identity is as yet unknown . . .

Lincoln Rhyme must race against the clock, juggling the two investigations, as they hurtle headlong toward their deadly outcomes.

(P)2010 Hodder & Stoughton

Critics Review

another corker... precision-engineered to keep the reader turning the pages without a hitch
Evening Standard on THE BROKEN WINDOW
One of the great detective teams of contemporary crime fiction come storming back...Deaver never disappoints, and this novel shines
Mark Timlin in Independent on Sunday on THE BROKEN WINDOW
spellbinding complexity
The Times on THE BROKEN WINDOW
The best psychological thriller writer around
The Times
The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world . . . [Deaver] has produced a stunning series of bestsellers with unique characterisation, intelligent characters, beguiling plots and double-barrelled and sometimes triple-barrelled solutions.
Daily Telegraph
Author Jeffery Deaver
Narrator Kerry Shale
Series Lincoln Rhyme Thrillers
Duration 2 hours and 25 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781848946293
Format Audiobook
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller: terrorism
Availability AU, GB, IE

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