New York Times Literary Treat of the Week......

Deaver, Jeffery. The Burning Wire.

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” Compared to Claudius in Hamlet all that besets Lincoln Rhyme in this latest adventure may not be sorrowful, but they do occur all at once. First, the quadriplegic forensics genius must content with tamperers of New York City’s electrical grid who destroy a bus and create mayhem that could eventually bring the metropolis to a standstill. Second, Rhyme is aiding from afar Mexican police that might apprehend assassin Richard “The Watchmaker” Logan who escaped in Deaver’s Cold Moon. Last, a visit from a fellow wheelchair-bound party holds out hope that Rhyme may one day rise out of his apparatus and the chronic bad health that has accompanied it.

Other "Lincoln Rhyme" books by Jeffery Deaver at Merrick Library:

The Broken Window
The Cold Moon
The Twelfth Card
The Vanished Man
The Stone Monkey
The Empty Chair

reviewed by librarian, Bob.