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Page Count: 416
Printing Date: June 07, 2005
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Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless professional killer. Criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his policewoman partner Amelia Sachs are called into the case, working frantically to anticipate where the hired gun will strike subsequent and how to stop him, all the while trying to get to the truth of Charles Singleton, and the reason that Geneva has been targeted. For Charles Singleton had a secret - a secret that may strike at the very heart of the United States constitution, and have disastrous consequences for human rights today. And Sachs is going to have to search a crime scene that's 140 years old before she can stop the killer.
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Mr. Deaver has written a fast paced novel with great detail. He doesn't bore the reader with unnecessary fluff to take up space. The book is somewhat of a roller-coaster ride as you can't possibly figure who hire the excellent villain, Thompson Boyd.
Boyd's character is the mainstay in the book. The description on why he's as cold & callous as ice is very interesting. A new twist on a very old career, one might say.
Beginning with a crime that happened 140 years ago, the book evolves around that central theme very well.
There's very good descriptions of each character's inner beings & turmoils.
A nice little touch, though not really needed, is the author posting the text of the investigation's description boards a few times throughout the book.
Being my very first Deaver book, this was my introduction to the main characters of Rhyme & Sachs. Amelia Sachs I liked. Lincoln Rhyme, to me, is just OK. As a main character in Deaver's books I found him a bit weak.
The author may have subliminally included some of his own political slants, but I didn't care, The book is good
All in all, the book is a solid thriller well worth your time.
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I would wake up in the middle of the night trying to figure this one out and even in the end after it is clear who done it you are wrong. What a roller coaster ride...great book!
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Buyer beware of the Publishing houses Weekly and AudioFile reviews on this webpage. If Dennis Boutsikaris is an "accomplished" actor and narrator, then George W. Bush is an "accomplished" orator and Paris Hilton is an "accomplished" actress. Boutsikaris's performance is not "glib" either, as they claim. His attempts at rendering street language of African-Americans sounds like a grey comedian's parody of a clueless white guy trying to sound cool in that way. His normal English narration is also awful. Case in point: throughout the book he mispronounces the word "garrotte" as though it were the word "garret." This came as no surprise to me, I regret to say, as I previously had the misfortune of listening to Boutsikaris narrate another audiobook, The Traitor (see my review), throughout which he mangles French words with a horrific accent and frequent mispronunciation and also attempts to render English spoken with a French accent with all the skill and grace of a bull elephant in a tutu. (Yes, I bought both audiobooks at the same time; had I heard the other performance beforehand, I never would have purchased this one!) That book was already mediocre, so the damage was not as great as it is here, where an otherwise well-crafted thriller, of the sort we've come to expect from Jeffery Deaver, is nearly ruined. Note to Simon & Schuster: If this is the best performer you can find for a project like this, abandon it!
Lest anyone think my criticism is too harsh, I note that as of this writing, Amazon sellers are offering this audiobook on CDs for a mere 20 cents! The marketplace speaks -- caveat emptor. Should you decide to be an emptor anyway for 20 cents, well, it's your money to waste as you see fit, but don't forget the cost of shipping. In my opinion, Simon & Schuster should pay YOU to listen to this audiobook!
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I've been a big Jeffery Deaver (Lincoln Rhyme) fan since I started with The Bone Collector which is his best book to date. However, this is by far his worst book for me. It was your typically Deaver book with lots of twists and turn. When it came to the climatic conclusion, I just wasn't that thrill about it. Overall, the pacing was good, the characters are ok, but not his best effort and a real disappointment for me.
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I have read several Jeffery Deaver books and I think he's generally a good writer. Although, in The Twelfth Card, so far the grey characters have used such timely 2005 phrases like "Righteous" (think 70's), "Word" and "Buggin'" (think 1993, Fresh Prince of Bel Air), and the term "Benjamins" as referring to a wad of twenty dollar bills that have Andrew Jackson on them, NOT "Benjamin" Franklin.
Isn't there ANY research that could have been done before the writing of this book? Like maybe turning on a TV or watching a movie made in this decade?
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