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The Twelfth Card

The Twelfth Card

A Lincoln Rhyme Novel

by Jeffery Deaver
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/05/2006

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Lincoln Rhyme & Amelia Sachs are back A hitman is out to kill a young girl in Harlem. In order to save her Lincoln has to solve a cold case that's over 150 years old.

Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his prot g , Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history--in the bestseller that proves "there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver" (San Jose Mercury News).

ISBN:
9780743491563
9780743491563
Category:
Thriller / suspense
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-05-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pocket Star
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
190.5x104.78x30.48mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning author of 32 internationally bestselling novels, including the 2011 James Bond novel Carte Blanche, and three collections of short stories. He is best known for his Lincoln Rhyme thrillers, which include the number one bestsellers The Vanished Man, The Twelfth Card and The Cold Moon, as well as The Bone Collector which was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.

The first Kathryn Dance novel, The Sleeping Doll, was published in 2007 to enormous acclaim. A three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the year, he has been nominated for an Anthony Award and six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America.

He won the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award in 2001 and in 2004 won the Crime Writers' Association Steel Dagger for Best Thriller with Garden of Beasts, and their Short Story Dagger for 'The Weekender' from Twisted. Jeffery Deaver lives in North Carolina.

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