SOON TO BE ALWAYS A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI.

From your #1 international bestselling writer of The Bone Collector and The Devil’s Teardrop comes this spine-chilling thriller that pits renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme against the ultimate opponent-Amelia Sachs, his own brilliant protégée.

A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his spinal cord years ago, Lincoln Rhyme is desperate to improve his condition and goes to the School about The Clear Chair of NEW YORK INFIRMARY for high-risk experimental medical procedures. But he and Sachs possess hardly resolved in when the local authorities come phoning. Inside a twenty-four-hour period, the sleepy Southern outpost of Tanner’s Corner has seen an area teenager murdered and two young females abducted. And Rhyme and Sachs are the best chance to get the girls alive.

The prime suspect is a peculiar teenaged truant known as the Insect Boy, so nicknamed for his disturbing obsession with bugs. Rhyme’s unsurpassed analytical abilities and stellar forensic experience, combined with Sachs’s exceptional detective legwork, soon snare the perp. But actually Rhyme can’t anticipate that Sachs will disagree along with his criminal offense analysis and that her vehemence will put her in the swampland, harboring the very believe whom Rhyme considers a ruthless killer. Therefore ensues Rhyme’s most significant challenge-facing the criminalist whom he offers trained everything he knows in a battle of wits, forensics, and intuition.

With the intricate forensic detail, breathtaking speed, and masterful plot twists that are signature Deaver, The Empty Chair is page-turning suspense of the best order.