Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are back in Deaver's latest "New York Times" bestselling thriller. A hitman is out to kill a young girl in Harlem. In order to save her Lincoln must solve a cold case that's 140 years old. Now in a premium format.
Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protege, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history -- in the bestseller that proves "there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver" ("San Jose Mercury News").