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by Jeffery Deaver (Author) "Greetings, Revered Audience ..." (more)
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Presto! With a conjuror's flourish, the reliable Jeffery Deaver has pulled another winner out of his hat. The Vanished Man brings back Lincoln Rhyme, forensic investigator, and his sidekick Amelia Sachs, ex-model and beat cop, a team featured in four previous books. Their case begins with a murder in which the culprit, cornered in a locked room, seemingly vanishes into thin air. Rhyme soon realizes he's up against a master illusionist--and then acquires a conjuror of his own, a spunky apprentice magician, to advise him. The book is chock-a-block with magic lore and with details of the craft of illusion, which provide a fine complement to the engrossing forensic-science puzzles.

The characters, as usual with Deaver, are little more than cardboard cutouts. Even Rhyme himself, a brilliant quadriplegic and former head of NYPD forensics, seems more a collection of characteristics than a man. But Deaver's cutouts are sturdy and well-constructed, and the book's plotting and pacing--featuring twist upon twist and reversal upon reversal--are nothing short of dazzling, reminiscent of Agatha Christie at her best. Deaver proves himself an accomplished illusionist, misdirecting your attention with one hand while slipping a firecracker down your pants with the other. --Nicholas H. Allison --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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Not since Bill Bixby's The Magician has illusion played such a vigorous role in the investigation of a homicide. A girl is murdered, the killer is caught red-handed, then trapped in a sealed room with a hostage. A shot is fired and when the room is entered, it is empty. Deaver (The Stone Monkey; The Devil's Teardrop; etc.) summons up a fifth tale in the Lincoln Rhyme series and loads it with his trademark twist and turns. Rhyme, a quadriplegic forensic criminologist, seems to have met his match in his new foe, dubbed "The Conjurer" by the police, a master of sleight of hand, illusion and misdirection, much like Deaver himself. Grupper does a fine job of keeping the thriller on the rails, and his depiction of Malerick, a villainous master of disguise straight out of a comic book (he regularly disappears in a flash of light and smoke), is riveting. Grupper's skill with gender and accents is marvelous. The structure of the book is nicely formatted for audio, as the killer narrates his own "performances" as if he were a ringmaster announcing the latest trick, using phrases like, "And now, revered audience...."
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1.0 out of 5 stars This book shouldn't disappear from the shelves!, Jul 15 2004
By S. Silvia "dancepartynow" (Providence RI) - See all my reviews
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This was my 2nd Deaver novel. I forgot the first one I started, but that should be no surprise. I didn't finish that one either!
This plot is so far-fetched, so convoluted, so full of cardboard characters that I gave up on it after 175 pages. Too bad. It started out promising, a nice twist on tracking down a killer(s): He/she always had magic incorporated into the scheme. But this story just went on far too long (keep in mind, I didn't even finish it) and got so unconvincing and outrageous that I had to move on. So many books, so little time. I think my Deaver days are over. Give me Crais or Coben or David Ellis anyday.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read!, Jul 14 2004
By Victoria (Honolulu, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Vanished Man: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Hardcover)
I read almost all of his books and this is the best one to date! I read it in one day because I couldn't put it down. Now, that's what I call suspense!
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1.0 out of 5 stars The Vanished Plot, Jul 14 2004
By StarrEise "N/A" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
I'm so disappointed in this book -- Deaver can do much better (read Stone Monkey or some earlier works). This book is TERRIBLE. The plot involves an insane magician whose wife is killed by a risky illusion -- or does it really? Just when you "think" you know who did it, the plot twists and turns in the most unbelievable ways possible. Illusions abound -- new consultants are brought in to help, but apparently only as a plot device to give the story more twists and turns than is necessary or tolerable. Once again, the villain breaks into Rhyme's apartment to put the criminalist in danger -- or does he? Again, another unnecessary plot twist and it stretches the bounds of disbelief -- how many times have we read about some villian slipping into Rhyme's bedroom to do him harm? This is the most at-risk homebound quadriplegic in all the world, certainly in all the literary world.

Amelia is back, too -- still griping about her arthritic knees, still fending off advances from every heterosexual male in the entire state of New York, and still driving her "yellow Corvette with a RACING HARNESS" through the streets of New York City at 90 miles an hour. And that's an exact quote from the book.

Overall the plot is too confusing, too long, too implausible. Deaver needs to go back to what made these stories interesting, the relationship between Sachs and Rhyme, but even that is becoming cliched. I think it might be time to either give Rhyme back his legs and have him "walking the grid" with Sachs or retire them both.

If you're interested in good fiction, check out Robert Crais.

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1.0 out of 5 stars The Boring Man
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. Read more
Published on May 17 2004 by bookworm

1.0 out of 5 stars Audio book best left unheard
Some books don't abridge well, some do. I don't know if this one would, but this version is, simply put, awful.

This is a terrific reading of an awful abridging of a book. Read more

Published on May 8 2004

4.0 out of 5 stars Full of Suspense
It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Read more
Published on Mar 23 2004 by A. Vegan

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Mystery Ever Written
Jeffery Deaver has really outdone himself this time. Having read all the books in the Lincoln Rhyme series, I was already immediately tuned into both Sachs and Rhyme, and the... Read more
Published on Mar 14 2004 by Bobbi Duncan

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad-But Not the Best Either
In the Vanished Man, Lincoln Rhyme is once again trying to capture a killer that keeps getting away every time they are close to capturing him. Read more
Published on Mar 8 2004 by J. Kirkman

1.0 out of 5 stars Just do it
I can't respect a novel as contrived as this one. The killer wants to kill someone from his past. Instead of just doing it, which would have been a total surprise, he kills... Read more
Published on Feb 27 2004 by zebra

4.0 out of 5 stars The Vanished Man - Patti
"Lincoln Rhyme, the worldĄs greatest forensic criminologist.
His partner and lover, Amelia Sachs. Read more
Published on Feb 16 2004 by Patti Chao

5.0 out of 5 stars I really enjoyed it
I've never heard of this author until I read about him in Canyon News, the article in Star gazing. I had no idea he was a gourmet chef. Read more
Published on Nov 11 2003 by Clara

2.0 out of 5 stars UGH!
Great plotting (why repeat what others have already outlined?), but totally unbelievable. The characters are one dimensional and not very likeable. Read more
Published on Oct 31 2003 by Andrea

4.0 out of 5 stars Deaver Returns to Original Form
I have read most of Deaver's books and this one is reminiscent of his first two blockbusters in the Lincoln Rhyme series, Bone Collector and Coffin Dancer. Read more
Published on Oct 20 2003

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