Funk Rating: 7 out of 10
Oh, how sad it is to see one of the best authors, with one of the best characters, just pound out an average-rate plot with weak imagination. It's possible my expectations were just too high, and from anyone else I would have enjoyed this. But this is the weakest Lincoln Rhyme story I think in the series.
The plot isn't credible from the start, and I had it pegged from about halfway through. Which never happens with Deaver and Rhyme, and shouldn't have happened now. Oh, there were certainly some clever parts, and it was nice to see a novel that used some pretty clever techniques to avoid just simple bombs and guns.
But, and this is a big but, the story was goofy and the characters stiff.
Read any other Deaver/Rhyme story before this one. Once you're through them all, then read this one. It's not that it's awful; it's just awfully short of maximum potential...
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