Book Review

The Broken Window (2008)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Release Date: Jun 10, 2008; Writer: Jeffery Deaver; Genres: Fiction, Mystery and Thriller; Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Quadriplegic forensics whiz Lincoln Rhyme and his Glock-toting girlfriend, Amelia Sachs, track a serial killer who uses an all-knowing computer database to frame fall guys in Jeffery Deaver's The Broken Window

Movie Pitch
Ironside meets CSI and Enemy of the State.

Bottom Line
Rhyme still intrigues in his eighth outing, while Deaver's scarily believable depiction of identity theft in a total-surveillance society stokes our paranoia. A-

Originally posted May 30, 2008 Published in issue #995-996 Jun 06, 2008 Order article reprints

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