Book description
When criminalist Lincoln Rhyme travels to a world-famous spinal cord
injuries center for experimental surgery, he hopes that the operation
will give him slightly more movement.
He knows that it may kill him.
But before he has a chance to undergo it, the local police department
draft in Rhyme and his assistant Amelia, using their forensic skills
to help find two women kidnapped by a psychotic young man known
locally as the Insect Boy.
And after a cat and mouse game through the abandoned swamps of North
Carolina, Lincoln finds himself searching for both boy and lover.
While Amelia uses all the skills her mentor has taught her to evade
him . . .
