Publisher's Synopsis
Taking place within the space of one harrowing weekend, this is a fascinating and fast-paced thriller from the best-selling author of THE BONE COLLECTOR. Lincoln Rhyme is the world's foremost criminalist. But an accident has shattered his spine and confined him to his bed forever. Percey Clay, the owner of a struggling charter flight service, finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now the target of an unstoppable professional killer called the Coffin Dancer - a murderer whom Lincoln knows only too well. Together, Lincoln and his assistant, NYPD patrolwoman Amelia Sachs, engage in a desperate fencing match of strategy with an evil genius.