Funk Rating: 8 out of 10
Oh how I love Lincoln Rhyme! One of the truly great characters of the last 10-20 years in bestselling fiction. Wickedly intelligent, physically handicapped, and a study of the ultimately rational detective.
This isn't the best Rhyme novel as elegantly crafted plot turns go. In fact, it's almost downright plodding in that sense. But, it's just as terrifying as this one is just a touch closer to being "real" -- if someone knows everything about us based on all the technology that now surrounds us, how easy it can be to ruin our lives...
Deaver did a weird thing in this novel of keeping the character alive from The Cold Moon as a sub-plot. So clearly we're going to see that bad guy again. And it distracted from this book more than a little in my mind. It was almost as if Deaver outlined this story, got the go-ahead, and then ran out of gas and wrote a short novel. So his publisher told him to bulk it up by filling in some more pages with a tease on the sequel to The Cold Moon.
Any-the-who, if you love Rhyme, this is a pretty good one. Certainly short of his best, but a fun read.
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