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首から下が麻痺した元刑事と彼の目、鼻、手足となる女巡査が稀代の殺人鬼を追う。ハンデをも武器にする、ニューヒーローが大活躍
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ケネディ国際空港からタクシーに乗った出張帰りの男女が忽然と消えた。やがて生き埋めにされた男が発見されたが、地面に突き出た薬指の肉はすっかり削ぎ落とされ、女物の指輪が光っていた…女はどこに!?NY市警は科学捜査専門家リンカーン・ライムに協力を要請する。彼は四肢麻痺でベッドから一歩も動けないのだが…。

数々のメッセージを残しながら、数時間おきに被害者を監禁する稀代の連続殺人鬼ボーン・コレクター。首から下が麻痺した元刑事と、彼の目・鼻・手足となる女巡査が、犯人を追う。新たな「安楽椅子探偵」の大活躍。 --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。

The hero of Jeffery Deaver's thriller The Bone Collector is Lincoln Rhyme, a forensic scientist known to his peers as "the world's foremost criminalist." Rhyme will need all his reason--and his considerable stock of high-tech tools--about him to solve this latest brain-twister: a serial killer with method to his madness. In tried and true thriller fashion, the killer's crimes are described in lurid detail, as is the astounding technological equipment with which Rhyme examines the evidence--everything from an energy-dispersive x-ray unit to a mass spectrometer.

Every fictional detective has his or her gimmick, from Sherlock Holmes's violin to Nero Wolf's orchids, and Rhyme is no exception. He is a quadriplegic who can move nothing but a single finger. Gadget-philes will be in seventh heaven reading about Lincoln Rhyme's tools; other readers might feel the book could do with a few more plausible characters and a little less technology.
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Deaver (A Maiden's Grave) is too fond of gimmicks. They range in this novel from the extreme (his detective here, Lincoln Rhyme, is a quadriplegic who can move only one finger) to the moderately eccentric (beautiful policewoman Amelia Sachs, who acts as Rhyme's arms and legs, suffers from arthritis). And his villain, a serial killer who models his crimes on ones he finds in a book on criminal life in old New York, has an uncomfortable way of slaying each of his victims in ways guaranteed to stop the heart or turn the stomach: buried alive, flayed by high-pressure steam, eaten by hungry rats, burned alive, attacked by mad dogs. All this takes place in the course of one busy New York weekend as the killer helpfully leaves playful little clues as to where he's going to strike next and Rhyme uses his immense savvy (and a battery of computerized testing tools) to figure it out. The whole affair, in fact, is incredibly silly, though the headlong narrative, with Sachs arriving in the nick of time (driving at 80 mph through New York streets) to perform rescues that seem to belong in a comic strip rather than a novel, never lets up, and there is plenty of genuine forensic knowledge in evidence. There are dramatic switcheroos up to the very last page, and a climactic battle to the death that might make even teenage boys wince. For it seems to be at that kind of readership?uncritical and doting on violence?that the novel is aimed. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; film rights sold to Martin Bregman and Universal Pictures; simultaneous Penguin audio. (Mar.) FYI: An HBO movie of A Maiden's Grave, starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin, will air in January 1997.
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Bestselling author Jeffery Deaver's "dazzling"* thriller(*New York Times) now a major motion picture from Universal Studios starring Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, and Queen Latifah

The brilliantly chilling masterpiece by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver--a journey into the minds of two criminal geniuses, one a former forensic specialist paralyzed in an accident, the other a killer on the loose...

"Stylish, scary, and superb."--Tami Hoag

"Exciting and fast-paced."--Peter Straub

"A breakneck thrill-ride."--Wall Street Journal

"Stunning."--People

* By the national bestselling author of A Maiden's Grave and Praying for Sleep

* Deaver is a two-time Edgar Award nominee
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Praise for Jeffery Deaver's other novels -- : 'There's no question...about Deaver's unexcelled ability to pull the wool over your eyes. When he describes a colorless, odorless glass of liquid as water, don't assume it is until somebody drinks it down - or maybe till an hour later.' -- Kirkus Reviews on THE TWELFTH CARD 'The best psychological thriller writer around' -- The Times 'The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world ... [Deaver] has produced a stunning series of bestsellers with unique characterisation, intelligent characters, beguiling plots and double-barrelled and sometimes triple-barrelled solutions.' -- Daily Telegraph 'This is a novel that will chill your blood on the warmest day of any summer holiday. Keep looking over your shoulder...' -- Independent on Sunday 'Jeffery Deaver is a master at crafting intricate crimes that are solved through guile, tenacity and sheer creative genius. And Lincoln Rhyme is one of a kind.' -- Harlan Coben --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。

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ディーヴァー,ジェフリー
シカゴ生まれ。ミズーリ大学およびフォーダム大学を卒業。ジャーナリストやフォーク・シンガーなどを経て作家デビュー

池田 真紀子
1966年、東京生まれ。上智大学法学部卒業。翻訳家(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)