The Twelfth Card: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
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- Published by: Simon & Schuster
- eBook Publish Date: June 13, 2005
- Print ISBN: 0743260929
- Filesize: 970.96 KB
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Overview
Bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver is back with a brand-new Lincoln Rhyme thriller. To save the life of a young girl who's being stalked by a ruthless hit man, Lincoln and his protege, Amelia Sachs, are called upon to do the impossible: solve a truly "cold case" -- one that's 140 years old.
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Bio of Jeffery Deaver
Jeffrey Deaver was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received his journalism degree from the University of Missouri and his law degree from Fordham University. Before attending law school, Deaver worked as a business writer, writing poetry in his spare time, as well as songs, which he traveled around the country and performed. After law school, Deaver got a job with a Wall Street law firm practicing corporate law. He later quit practicing law, in 1990 to write full time. His first novel was entitled "Voodoo," a horror story, his first and only book of that kind. Deaver went on to write suspense novels, including "A Maiden's Grave," which was made into a film by HBO called "Dead Silence." His novel "The Bone Collector" was made into a feature film by Universal Pictures featuring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. He writes short stories for Ellery Queen Readers and Alfred Hitchcock magazines. Deaver is a 4 time Edgar Award nominee as well as having received the Ellery Queen Readers Award for Best Short Story of the Year twice. He is the author of fifteen novels and has written some of those stories under the pseudonym William Jeffries.
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Twelfth Card
Posted July 31, 2008 by scarlett, West Hills, CA
I enjoyed this Lincoln Rhyme mystery. The background research done by the author adds interesting historical elements to the story. I do wonder, however, why Rhyme does not seem upset when his red herrings keep changing their colors.
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Simon & Schuster
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970.96 KB
Number of Pages
416
eBook ISBN
9780743274432
Excerpt from: The Twelfth Card by Jeffery Deaver
Chapter One: The Three-Fifths Man
Tuesday, October 9
His face wet with sweat and with tears, the man runs for freedom, he runs for his life.
"There! There he goes!"
The former slave does not know exactly where the voice comes from. Behind him? To the right or left? From atop one of the decrepit tenements lining the filthy cobblestoned streets here?
Amid July air hot and thick as liquid paraffin, the lean man leaps over a pile of horse dung. The street sweepers don't come here, to this part of the city. Charles Singleton pauses beside a pallet stacked high with barrels, trying to catch his breath.
A crack of a pistol. The bullet goes wide. The sharp report of the gun takes him back instantly to the war: the impossible, mad hours as he stood his ground in a dusty blue uniform, steadying a heavy musket, facing men wearing dusty gray, aiming their own weapons his way.
Running faster now. The men fire again. These bullets also miss.
"Somebody stop him! Five dollars' gold if you catch him."
But the few people out on the streets this early -- mostly Irish ragpickers and laborers trooping to work with hods or picks on their shoulders -- have no inclination to stop the Negro, who has fierce eyes and large muscles and such frightening determination. As for the reward, the shouted offer came from a city constable, which means there's no coin behind the promise.
At the Twenty-third Street paintworks, Charles veers west. He slips on the slick cobblestones and falls hard. A mounted policeman rounds the corner and, raising his nightstick, bears down on the fallen man. And then --
