jsmorris's Full Review: Jeffery Deaver - The Stone Monkey: A Lincoln Rhyme...
Jeffery Deaver never ceases to amaze me with his imagination in creating believable yet intriguing plots. STONE MONKEY is no different.
The Ghost is a smuggler with few morals. He has a ship packed full of Chinese immigrants that he blows up less than a mile off of the US coast. Seems he wanted their cash but didn’t really want to fulfill his obligations. A few manage to escape only to be hunted by The Ghost. It appears he doesn’t want any witnesses. While they are being pounded by a fierce storm, clutching the life raft, he is shooting at them like sitting ducks. Enter Amelia Sachs. She arrives on the beach in time to help save one of the immigrants, while the others elude the authorities and slip away. Amelia and Lincoln, with the help of their pals, try to find these two families before The Ghost can complete his mission and kill them.
A few side plots keep the reader on the edge of his/her seat and make for an enjoyable expedition. Deaver has a gift that brings the reader into the written word – our hearts pound as one family steals a van to make their getaway; we can smell the tea Dr. Sung gives Amelia to help her with her ailments; we jump at every sound outside of the hideout; we cheer for each member of the Wu and Chang families; we become part of the story.
Character development is excellent. We continue our friendship with Amelia Sachs and Lincoln Rhyme. And like any good friend, we continue to wonder what is in their futures. We’re introduced to Sonny Li, a Chinese cop who thinks a bit differently than Lincoln and opens him to the possibility of intuition. I do have to say that he was one of my favorite characters from any of these books – Sonny will make the reader chuckle out loud at his antics, and make you sit back and say, “Ahh…” after he explains things as he sees them. Dr. John Sung is another character that is brought to life. He introduces Amelia to the Chinese homeopathic way of life, becomes her friend, and has the reader guessing if his intentions are platonic or something more.
As is Jeffery Deaver’s normal style, STONE MONKEY is fast paced and leaves little time to catch your breath between scenes. Deaver is a master at convincing the reader that he/she knows the identity of The Ghost only to have that belief tossed aside and a new individual chosen. Deaver is one of the few who has fooled me in the past, but not with this one. But I just barely figured it out – and cheered at the end when I was right! Yes, score one for me against the master!
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