who's prosecuting him grows to involve Malerick, giving the storyline twists-and twists and twists, through Deaver's masterful sleight of hand. A subplot about a white power demagogue's attempt to assassinate the Manhattan D.A. The villain-revealed in passages from his POV as "Malerick," soon identified as a world-class magician with a serious ax to grind-commits further mayhem (including an attack on Rhyme), which looks like steps toward an act of consummate revenge. Forensic and eyewitness clues point to a culprit with magic training looking for expert help, Sachs encounters an aspiring illusionist, who goes by the stage name of Kara, who agrees to help her and Rhyme. Caught in the act, the killer vanishes from a sealed room. The novel opens with the murder of a young female student at a music school on Manhattan's Upper West Side. It's fitting, then, that in his new, giddily entertaining story about quadriplegic crime fighter Rhyme, he casts as his villain a professional illusionist-and an apprentice magician as assistant to Rhyme and Rhyme's cop sidekick–lover, Amelia Sachs. Fans of Deaver know that he works storytelling magic in his thrillers, not just the Lincoln Rhyme tales ( The Stone Monkey, etc.) but also the stand-alones ( The Blue Nowhere, etc.).
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