Type of bind: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780671045692
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN number: 0671045695
Label: Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio
Quantity: 4
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: August 01, 1999
Publishing house: Simon & Schuster Audio
Release Date: August 10, 1999
Sale Popularity Level: 1095434
Studio: Simon & Schuster Audio
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New Year's Eve, 1999. A grisly machine gun attack in the Washington, D.C., subway system leaves dozens dead and the city crippled with fear. A note delivered to the mayor's office connects the massacre to the Digger. an emotionless assassin programmed to wreak havoc on the capital at four-hour intervals, until midnight. Only a ransom of 20 million dollars delivered to his accomplice -- and mastermind -- will end the death and terror.
But the Digger becomes a far more sinister threat when his accomplice is killed in a freak accident while en route to the money drop. With the ransom note as the single scrap of evidence. Special Agent Lukas calls upon Parker Kincaid, a retired FBI agent and the top forensic document examiner in the country. Somehow, by midnight, they must find the Digger -- before he finds them.
With intricate forensic detail. masterful plot twists, and the harrowing breakneck pace that is signature Deaver, The Devil's Teardrop is destined to continue Jeffery Deaver's bestselling track record and thrill his legions of fans worldwide.
Amazon.com Review:
Thriller readers can always count on getting extra value from Jeffery Deaver--strong plots, fascinating research, believable characters, and plenty of surprise endings. Like in The Terminator, the bad guys in The Devil's Teardrop just won't quit, and they create enough havoc in the last 50 pages to fill a whole new book.
Although Deaver's brilliant, wheelchair-bound forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme makes a guest appearance, the muscular scientist in charge here is Parker Kincaid--an expert in document analysis who'd much rather be checking the authenticity of letters from Thomas Jefferson than figuring out when a crazed shooter known as the Digger will strike again. But it's New Year's Eve, 1999, and the Digger has begun a reign of terror--promising to shoot into crowds in Washington, D.C., every four hours until he's paid $20 million. As Kincaid searches an odd ransom note for clues (and tries to maintain a low profile so that his vindictive ex-wife won't get custody of his young kids), we get to know the Digger better. He is a frighteningly invisible character with serious brain damage, who methodically obeys a set of instructions from an unknown handler. We also learn many amazing facts about paper, ink, and handwriting analysis, and watch as a relationship slowly and reluctantly develops between Kincaid and the FBI agent in charge. All this as the devious Deaver leads us down several garden paths overflowing with dead bodies. --Dick Adler
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This is my very first Deaver novel though I have read some of his short stories which were much better. This book is very slow moving for the very first 1/2 to 3/4 of the book until it picks up near the end. The sections describing forgeries and types of paper to help with forensics evidence were informational but only served to bring this book to a crawl at times. If there were more detail and scenes involving the Digger earlier in the book it would have helped move the story along. Overall a decent novel but I hope Deaver has better works out there. For a better option try out one of J.A. Konrath's 'Jack Daniels' series novels.
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This was a phenomenal book! After having taken a break from Deaver for a while to peruse other authors I picked this up from the Library and was more than pleasantly surprised. What made this book work was all the sub-plots working in the background: Lukas & Jefferson's sexual tension, Lukas' never ending pain of losing her husband and son, and naturally, the "Digger" and the chaos he was creating. Once the ransom drop off for the "Digger" to stop was botched by the "pick up" man you almost knew their had to be a third party controlling the "Digger's" strings, so to speak. The good part is that they never led you on to believe anyone else suspicious. It was, at face value, them against the Digger. I'd never had looked at "Len Hardy", or so he called himself, to be the ultimate puppetmaster. He was cold..especially how he knew to work on Lukas' sympathy over his "comatose" wife. I won't give away the whole ending,naturally, but the ending was even better than I'd hoped for..competely out of the blue and definitely worth the read. I think I'd be back browsing the shelves for more Deaver upon return to my local library. Give this one a shot if you've never read Deaver...I've read him for years and he rarely disappoints. Happy Reading!
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A criminal mastermind is plotting an extortion scheme against the city of Washington, threatening massacres at four hour intervals if 20 million dollars is not paid by noon that day.
The day is New Year's Eve, 1999, and someone is terrorizing Washington D.C., which leads the FBI to turn to Parker Kincaid, who had retired after an ugly incident a couple of years earlier which had endangered his children's lives.
With his expertise as a certified document examiner, they unravel the spellbinding mystery.
Parker is very likeable as a single father, which makes this story all the more enjoyable.
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The devil is in the details, they say - and that's always been one of Jeffrey Deaver's strengths: the ability to take well-worn story-lines yet make them refreshingly exciting by going into meticulous detail with regard to characterisation and modus operandi. I have about a dozen Deaver novels, only three-quarters have been read so far but The Devils's Teardrop is as good as any if not the best. The semi-automaton in this novel, known as The Digger, is quite a scary individual and absolutely devoid of remorse. Someone has 'programmed' him however, and that's where the main challenge lies. While the central character here is good-guy Parker Kincaid, the author is confident enough to introduce none other than Lincoln Rhyme in a cameo appearance! It's bordering upon arrogance but he gets away with it.
If you have yet to buy a Deaver novel, here is as good a place as any to start and you will surely want to join the club. And if you're a Deaver reader already, then buy The Devil's Teardrop with absolute confidence, it will maintain or even raise the standards you have become familiar with. Jeffrey Deaver is one of a very select group of contemporary writers I can think of who make it a safe bet to buy everything they publish - he just doesn't write duds.
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Gilbert Havel, a blackmailer, is the only person who can communicate with Digger, an invisible character with brain damage, which left him a 'half-human killing machine.' Already he'd carried out the massacre in the Dupont Circle Metro tunnel at midnight and had three other explosions to set off if Mayor Gerald Kennedy did not pay the ransom demanded.
Digger is an emotionless, robot-like madman who doesn't know not to follow through on the death job his 'handler' arranged. Havel is killed in a freak accident, but Digger is like a skinny ape man on Halloween, only this is New Year's Eve. He is unseen by those he's been programed into 'making ghosts.'
It is a tense, suspenseful thriller as they try to discover where he will strike next. Jeffery Deaver has written his major success, THE BONE COLLECTOR, NOCTURE, and THE LESSON OF HER DEATH.
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