コフィン・ダンサー〈下〉 (文春文庫) [文庫]

   映画化され話題を呼んだ『ボーン・コレクター』に続き、四肢麻痺の科学捜査専門家リンカーン・ライムを主人公としたシリーズ。ベッドから一歩も動かずスーパーコンピュータなみの頭脳で犯人を追い詰めていく異色捜査官の本作における敵は、その刺青から「コフィン・ダンサー（棺桶の前で踊る死神）」と呼ばれる殺し屋。大陪審で大物武器密売人に不利な証言をする予定の証人を消すために雇われた彼によって、民間航空運輸会社の社長兼パイロットがその毒牙にかかり、彼の妻が次の標的に。大陪審まであと2日。追う者と追われる者の息詰まる勝負の行方は…。

   最先端の科学捜査をフィーチャーした綿密なディテール、そのひとつひとつがすべて結末への伏線となっているその構成は見事と言うほかはない。前作に比べて犯人の人物造詣が少々浅いのが気にかかるファンもいそうだが、その分、被害者サイドおよびライムとその仲間たちの造詣はより厚みを増した。特に、ライムの麻痺した四肢の代わりに活動する美貌の捜査官、アメリアの存在感が光る。本作で彼への思慕の念をはっきりと自覚したアメリア。シリーズ3作において、ライムを待ち構える事件の内容はもちろん、皮肉屋で人間関係にきわめて臆病な彼が、彼女によってどう変化するのか。ちょっと下世話なお楽しみを用意しておくあたりも、エンターテイメント作家としての著者の手練だといえる。（梅村千恵） --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

武器密売裁判の重要証人が航空機事故で死亡。ＮＹ市警は殺し屋"ダンサー"の仕業と断定し、犯人追跡の協力をあのライムに依頼する
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殺し屋「コフィン・ダンサー」は執拗に証人の命を狙う。科学捜査専門家リンカーン・ライムは罠を張って待ち構えるが、ダンサーは思いもよらぬところから現れる。その素顔とは。そして四肢麻痺のライムと、その手足となって働くアメリア・サックス巡査の間には愛情が育っていくが…。サックスにダンサーの魔手が迫る。

ざわざわと虫の這う感覚がする…。虫の気配がしたら人を殺す、「棺桶の前で踊る死神(コフィン・ダンサー)」の刺青をした殺人鬼。「ボーン・コレクター」に続くリンカーン・ライムシリーズの第二弾。 --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

This return engagement for quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is strong on forensic details as Rhyme tracks an elusive assassin known only by the tattoo that gives this fast-paced thriller its title.

Three witnesses to a murder could put a millionaire arms dealer behind bars for good. When one of them, the co-owner of Hudson Air, is blown up in a plane bombing with the Dancer's fingerprints all over it, the FBI takes the other witnesses into protective custody. Only Rhyme can decipher a crime scene, read the residue of a bombing, or identify a handful of dirt well enough to keep up with the killer. Helped by Amelia Sachs, his brilliant and able-bodied assistant, Rhyme traces the Dancer through Manhattan streets, airports, and subways. The psychological tension builds rapidly from page one all the way to the stunning and unexpected denouement. At the same time, Jeffery Deaver slowly develops the against-all-odds love affair between Rhyme and Sachs. Fans of Patricia Cornwell and others in the growing subgenre of forensic thrillers will find a lot to enjoy in Deaver's latest. --Jane Adams
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Deaver has come a long way since his Rune novels (Manhattan Is My Beat; Death of a Blue Movie Star), and the measure of his growth as a writer is on display in this taut sequel to the bestselling The Bone Collector, starring quadriplegic forensic specialist Lincoln Rhyme. Rhyme is called in to track down a contract killer, known as the Coffin Dancer, who has been hired to eliminate three witnesses in the upcoming federal trial of Philip Hansen. The trial is set to begin just 48 hours from the novel's (literally) explosive beginning. Rhyme and his beautiful assistant, detective Amelia Sachs, have just that much time to ID the Dancer and keep him from murdering the remaining witnesses. Yet Rhyme has personal reasons to track the Dancer, which come out in just one of the revelations and reversals that punctuate this thriller like a string of firecrackers. The pace, energized by Deaver's precise attention, never flags; and if the romantic angle is a little obvious (Rhyme's seeming concern for one of the Dancer's female targets sparks Amelia's jealousy), Deaver manages to renovate many of the hoariest conventions of the ticking-clock-serial-murder subgenre. Another original renovation is his Nero Wolfe-ish Rhyme?a detective who lives the life of the mind by necessity, not choice, and who thinks of everything but can't even pick up a phone without help. Trust Deaver's superb plotting and brisk, no-nonsense prose to spin fresh gold from tired straw. Literary Guild main selection; Doubleday Book Club featured alternate; Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club.
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Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is on the hunt for an elusive murderer, the Coffin Dancer. He's a brilliant hit man who changes his appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims, only one of whom has lived long enough to offer a clue: the assassin has an eerie tattoo on his arm of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman in front of a casket.

Rhyme, tragically paralyzed from a line-of-duty accident, continues to tutor his beautiful protege, Detective Amelia Sachs, in the art of criminal hunting. Rhyme's suspicion of an earlier encounter with this killer fuels his bitter taste for vengeance. When the chameleonlike assassin targets three federal witnesses for death, the stakes reach a new high. Rhyme's brainpower and Sachs' legwork are the only tools they have to track the cunning murderer through the subways, parks, and airports of a darkly painted New York City. They have 48 hours to keep the witnesses alive before a grand jury convenes.

With The Coffin Dancer, Deaver uses his trademark plot twists to keep this fast-paced, masterly thriller steamrolling along with breathtaking speed.
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In 2004, Jeffery Deaver won the Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for his book Garden of Beasts. Little could he know that his acceptance speech, in which he spoke about his life-long admiration of Fleming’s writing, would lead to him being approached to write the next James Bond novel.

The international number-one bestselling author of two collections of short stories and 27 previous suspense novels, Deaver is best known for his Kathryn Dance and Lincoln Rhyme thrillers, most notably The Bone Collector, which was made into a feature starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.  His many awards include the Novel of the Year at the International Thriller Writers’ Awards in 2009 for his standalone novel The Bodies Left Behind. The latest entries in the Lincoln Rhyme series are The Cold Moon, The Broken Window, and The Burning Wire. 

Deaver’s most recent standalone thriller, Edge, was called “an exciting new weapon in the author’s arsenal of memorable characters.” (Publisher’s Weekly)

Jeffery Deaver lives in North Carolina. Parallels between Bond's and Deaver’s lives include their love of fast cars, skiing and whiskey. Deaver is the fifth author to continue Ian Fleming’s legacy by penning a James Bond novel.

For further information, visit www.jefferydeaver.com. --このテキストは、 カセット 版に関連付けられています。

ディーヴァー,ジェフリー
1950年シカゴ生まれ。ミズーリ大学でジャーナリズムを専攻、雑誌記者となる。大手の法律事務所で弁護士として働いた後、40歳にしてフルタイムの小説家となる

池田 真紀子
1966年東京生まれ。上智大学法学部卒業(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)