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Title: The Vanished Man: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel by Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0-7434-3781-0 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 29 June, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (96 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: EXCELLENT!
Comment: A prestigious music school in New York City is the scene of the crime. The killer locks himself in a classroom and within minutes a scream is heard, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door to find the room completely empty.
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the investigation. The clues are few and far between, and the killer disappears as into thin air, but Rhyme and Sachs are determined to catch the killer.
Dubbed "the conjurer" the killer is meticulous at planning, and changing his identity. He carefully picks his victims, kills them by using famous magic tricks (think sawing a body in half, escape from a water chamber, etc.), and taunts the police with each new body.
Rhyme and Sachs realize they must move fast to catch "the conjurer" because each new death is growing more gruesome, and it's all leading up to the ultimate "magic trick."
'The Vanished Man' is EXCELLENT! A shocking murder grabs hold of you on page one, and un-bearable suspense keeps you turning 400 more thrill-packed pages. Take a complex plot, thrown in gruesome murders, put in tons of plot twists, and add the hunt for a twisted killer, and you have 'The Vanished Man', an up-all-night page-turner that will keep you guessing.
Jeffery Deaver has written great page-turners in the past, but he outdoes himself with his latest novel. After a few mediocre novels, Deaver comes full- force with a roller coaster, shock filled book that surpasses his best efforts; The Bone Collector & The Empty Chair. Fans of the Lincoln Rhyme series are in for a real treat, for this is easily, one of the best thrillers to come out in some time.
A guaranteed bestseller, 'The Vanished Man' is a MUST read!
Nick Gonnella
Rating: 5
Summary: Razzle dazzle, never-stop plot
Comment: Deaver isn't just a famous name, he's a formidable talent. Paraplegic police consultant Lincoln Rhyme is at his curmudgeonly Holmesian best in this over-the-top pyrotechnic psychological thriller of murder and magic. The plot twists and turns from page to page as a mad conjurer embarks on a killing spree (seen from his POV) using classic magic tricks as his template. Sleight-of-hand, quick-change disguise, Houdini-like escapes, smoke-and-mirror illusions: this world-class magician soon has the police spinning in place.
Rhyme and his protégé (and lover) police detective Amelia Sachs require a little help on this one - an enthusiastic young apprentice magician, Kara, who explains the tricks and delivers some of her own. The plot takes center stage with its split-second timing and double-triple-quadruple twists, buttressed by Kara's dissection of the tricks, particularly the psychology behind audience deception. And sure enough, more than once, Rhyme outsmarts himself.
A white-supremacist sub-plot folds cleverly into the mix and the story is fleshed out with Rhyme's physical challenges, Sachs' ambitions and Kara's relationship with her sick mother. A dazzling show, this one will fool you to the last page.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Boring Man
Comment: This one seems to be getting high praise, but I think those reviews must be from established fans of Deaver or the genre itself. I found this novel to be extremely boring. Yes, there's much research into forensics and the magic business, but the author tends to talk down to the reader, which I find annoying. One example would be the over explaining of the classic illusion "Sawing A Woman In Half." Is there really anyone out there who doesn't know the basic theme of this well-known magic effect?
In what is otherwise very stiff text, Deaver attempts to make the characters sound more natural by throwing in way too many contractions ("or is" becoming "or's") from every character. Contrived and distracting.
Ridiculous turns of events and cardboard characters who all sound alike seem to be par for the course these days, but beyond that I just couldn't find anything of interest here.
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Title: The Stone Monkey: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel by Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0743437802 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Empty Chair by Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0671026011 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Lost Light by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316154601 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: A Cold Heart: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345452550 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0671024094 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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