The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
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- ISBN13: 9781416549987
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Bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver is back with a brand-new Lincoln Rhyme thriller.
Lincoln Rhyme and partner/paramour Amelia Sachs return to face a criminal whose ingenious staging of crimes is enabled by a terrifying access to information….
When Lincoln’s alienated cousin Arthur Rhyme is arrested on murder charges, the case is perfect — too perfect. Forensic evidence from Arthur’s home is establish all over the scene of the crime, and it looks like the fate of Lincoln’s relative is sealed.
At the behest of Arthur’s wife, Judy, Lincoln grudgingly agrees to investigate the case. Soon Lincoln and Amelia uncover a string of similar murders and rapes with perpetrators claiming innocence and ignorance — despite ironclad evidence at the scenes of the crime. Rhyme’s team realizes this “perfect” evidence may really be the result of masterful identity theft and manipulation.
An information service company — the huge data miner Strategic Systems Datacorp — seems to have all the answers but is reluctant to help the police. Still, Rhyme and Sachs and their assembled team start uncovering a chilling pattern of vicious crimes and coverups, and their investigation points to one master criminal, whom they dub “522.”
When “522″ learns the identities of the crime-fighting team, the hunters become the hunted. Full of Deaver’s trademark plot twists, The Broken Window will place the partnership of Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs to the essential test.
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I can’t judge I wasted my time on this drivel. This book is 350 pages too long. Stay away at all costs!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
It was mostly okay but was dull in some parts, especially the ones that had a lot of numbers being read.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Deaver is a very excellent writer, but like another reviewer I reflect he had WAY too much detail. I ongoing scrimming half way through the book and that was the only way I could end. Deaver has a penchanct for making terrible guys who are smarter than anyone – no one can catch them or can they!!!! Of course Rhyme and Amelia figure it out. I skipped the sub-plots or whatever they were, about Art in prison and Pam – whoever she is. I had no clue. I reflect this would have been a much better book with 50 or 100 fewer pages. I had to force myself to end the book just to find out who the terrible guy was. The conclusion was one huge coincidence and very unbelivable. I’ll probably get the next Deaver out of the library but if it’s as detailed and technical as this one (I skip the pages where he lists everything on Linc’s white boards, too – and didn’t miss a thing) I’ll stop reading and go on to a more intreguing book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver is a pretty excellent tale. Positioned in today’s world the tale deals with identity theft and the hundreds of ways we are at risk for financial fraud and exploitation of one sort or another. Even a trip to the grocery tale provides information about you that can be mined by today’s computers. This information is then collected and sold to marketing firms that then provide the information their clients. The Broken Window is sure to appeal to today’s reader.
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are back along with the usual cast of supporting characters. And this is what is incorrect with series of this scenery. Mind you, this isn’t of criticism of Deaver….not at all, but is simply an observation. Deaver is a terrific leader. He writes fiction that is intelligent and usually has something positive to teach. The problem is that no matter what situation Amelia is place in we know that Lincoln Rhyme will bail her out. We also know that Lincoln Rhyme is never really going to be killed off. Well, not until Deaver is ready to go on creatively. The characters on the periphery are all at risk, but the core characters are safe, no matter the risks they take. This puts me in mind of the original Star Trek series in the 1960’s. Kirk, McCoy, and Spock could be beamed down to a planet and you knew nothing serious would take place to them. The poor fourth and fifth crewman that went with them were promptly sacrificed, usually offed by some fantastic creature. Many of the modern fiction series today are similar. James Lee Burke is to some extent of an exception with his series starring Dave Robicheaux. Burke has killed two or three of Robicheaux’s wives thus adding some drama and surprises for the reader.
I’m not suggesting that Lincoln Rhyme be killed off. But surely Amelia’s death would add some actual surprise to the tale line and would open the series to some clearness.
I will continue to read the Lincoln Rhyme books as they’re published. I reflect a lot of Deaver’s ability to tell a fantastic tale. But the publishing industry is filled with these series and too much of that could expose us all to increasingly stale tales.
I highly recommend The Broken Window.
Sorry for venting.
Peace to all.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Wheelchair bound Lincoln Rhyme prefers to have nothing to do with his alienated cousin Arthur Rhyme, due to a long standing feud dating back to their adolescence. But Art has been accused of murder by the State of New York and like most caught criminals swears he is innocent; Lincoln assumes otherwise, but bowing to family tree pressure starting with a visit from Art’s wife Judy, who he has not seen since two years before the manufacturing accident, the ex- NYPD crime practiced agrees to investigate.
Lincoln and his legs partner detective Amelia Sachs start digging into the background to Arthur’s case. They soon find anomalies as they dig not more than the surface. The pair also notice a seemingly tangential link to a data mining firm that collects and analyzes consumer data with customers unaware of it. That leads the pair to start to hypothesize that a name is using the information to serially kill people and set up innocent people like Arthur to take the fall; but how to prove their theory and uncover who seems impossible when all the hardcore evidence convicts Arthur beyond a shadow of a doubt.
The case is fascinating with an implied warning that if one IT guru can do what the culprit did with data imagine what a government agency filled with such experts can do with data. Adding to the fun of the read, is the look into his extended family tree and the incident that caused a schism. Readers will appreciate this strong Rhyme entry as the investigation is top rate and the insight into his broken family tree ties superb while bundled around a cautionary Huge Brother is here caveat
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5