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Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Lincoln Rhyme: Add a description of this character.
- Sam Chang
- William
- Alan Coe
- Dr. John Sung
- Thom: Rhyme's caretaker
- Wu
- Paul
- Lon Sellitto: Lincoln Rhymes colleague at the NYPD who continues to work with him
- Mel Cooper: Forensic lab expert who works with Rhyme
- Jerry Tang
- Webley
- Dellray
- Kwan Ang
- Hongse
- Yusuf
- Lang
- Malone
- Eddie
- Fred
- Chang Jiechi
- Harold Peabody
- Guan Di
- Mei-mei
- Ronald
- Jimmy Mah
- Amelia Sachs: A feisty red-headed romantic, this crime scene detective's mind is as sharp as her shoot. Lincoln Rhymes' love interest
- Chin-mei
- Dr. Weaver
- Walther Ppk
- Victor Au
Quotes edit
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Tao. Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.
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Classification, identification, differentiation, individuation … that’s criminalistics in a nutshell.
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“I would say you are yang—that word means the side of a mountain with the sun on it. Yang is brightness, movement, increase, arousal,
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in medicine we have liu-yin: the six pernicious influences. They are dampness, wind, fire, cold, dryness and summer heat. They affect the organs of the body and the qi—the spirit—as well as the blood and essence. When they are excessive or lacking they create disharmony and that causes problems. Too much dampness must be dried out. Too much cold must be warmed.”
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The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, the way to use life is to do everything through being….
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Lincoln Rhyme often examined the content of blood to determine what it could tell about the individual who’d shed it.
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“In Tao, Lao-tzu say, ‘There no need to leave house for better seeing. No need to peer from window. Instead, live in the center of your being. The way to do is to be.’”
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“Called cutting demon’s tail. See, demons follow you always so when you cross traffic you run fast in front of car. That cut off demon’s tail and take his power away.”
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coddling foods or rooms of one’s own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice—even giving up one’s life.
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The battle is won by the player who sees the furthest—the one, that is, who can see through his opponent’s move, can guess his plan and counter it, and who, when attacking, anticipates all the defensive moves of his opponent. —The Game of Wei-Chi
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Setting & Locations edit
- New York City, NY
- Chinatown
- Fuzhou Dragon
- Manhattan
- Queens
- Brooklyn
- Ghost
- Long Island
- Beijing
- Battery Park City
- Canal Street
- America
- Mali
- Russia
- United States
- Hong Kong
- Taiwan
- Washington
- Liu Guoyuan
- Fujian
- Ilitto
- Easton
- Beautiful Country
- Baba
- Xiamen
- Turkestan Community
- Singapore
- Owls Head
- Port Jefferson
- Beretta
First Sentence edit
They were the vanished, they were the unfortunate.
Errata edit
just one typo, cant even remember where it was
Series & Lists edit
This is book 4 of 11 in Lincoln Rhyme. (standard series)
Preceded by The Empty Chair, and followed by The Vanished Man.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jeffery Deaver (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: March-2002
ISBN: 978-0743221993
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: March-2002
ISBN: 978-0743221993
Page Count: 432
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- Dewey: 813
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