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

“Deaver’s labyrinthine plots are astonishing”(THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review) within this bestselling thriller featuring a hitman who’s out to kill a young young lady in Harlem and to conserve her, Lincoln Rhyme has to solve a cool case that’s more than 150 years of age.

Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer that has targeted a higher school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of 1 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 normally concealed in his calling cards, the hanged guy of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history-in the brand new York Times bestseller that shows “there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver” (San Jose Mercury Information).