The empty chair

When cGriminalist Lincoin Rhyme travels to a world-famous spinal cord injuries center in North Carolina for some experimental surgery, he hopes that the operation will give him slightly more movement. He knows that it may kill him. But before he has a chance to undergo surgery, ‘and his assistant Amelia are drafted in by the ‘al police department to use their forensic skills to 1elp find two women kidnapped by a psychotie young fan known locally as the Insect Boy. A cat and n Ouse game through the abandoned swamps Of orth Carolina is to have more devastating =cOnsequences than either Lincoln or Amelia Jeffery Deaver’s new Lincoln Rhyme novel = establishes him as the best thriller writer of the®