The Stone Monkey

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THE NEW UNCOLN RHYME THRILLER
Lincoln Rhyme returns - to take on the terrifying world of Chinese organized crime.
Recruited to help the US government perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs manage to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as| well as the notorious human smuggler and killer jj known as the Ghost. „ ^^
But when the Ghost's capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a ^ race against time - to stop the Ghost before he can discover and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community.
Over the next harrowing forty-eight hours, the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families, while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland ^ China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of l^p police work, forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE NEW UNCOLN RHYME THRILLER
Lincoln Rhyme returns - to take on the terrifying world of Chinese organized crime.
Recruited to help the US government perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs manage to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as| well as the notorious human smuggler and killer jj known as the Ghost. „ ^^
But when the Ghost's capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a ^ race against time - to stop the Ghost before he can discover and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community.
Over the next harrowing forty-eight hours, the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families, while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland ^ China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of l^p police work, forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.
With The Stone Monkey, Jeffery Deaver brings back his best-loved characters and displays his enormous talent at a new level. With heart-stopping deadlines, wholly unexpected plot twists, breakneck pacing and people who are extremely real, this novel reminds us once again why The Times hailed Deaver as 'the best psychological thriller writer around' ^,,
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