Lincoln Rhyme‎,‎ ex‎-head of NYPD forensics‎,‎ was the nation‎'‎s foremost criminalist‎,‎ the man who could work a crime scene and come away with a perfect profile of the killer‎,‎ frozen in time‎.‎ Now‎,‎ Lincoln is frozen in place ‎- permanently‎.‎ An accident on the job left him a quadriplegic who can move just one finger‎,‎ a great mind strapped to his bed‎,‎ mulish and sarcastic‎,‎ hiding from a life he no longer wants to live‎.‎ Until he sees the crime‎-scene report about a corpse found buried on a deserted West Side railroad track‎,‎ its bloody hand rising from the dirt‎.‎ It belonged to a man who got into a cab at the airport and never got out‎.‎ Reluctantly‎,‎ Lincoln Rhyme abandons retirement to track down a killer whose ingenious clues hold the secret to saving his victims ‎- if Rhyme can decipher them in time‎.‎ The search leads him to the Bone Collector‎,‎ whose obsession with old New York colors every scrap of evidence he leaves for Rhyme and his new partner‎,‎ Amelia Sachs‎,‎ whom he drafts as his arms and legs‎.‎ But she‎'‎s never worked a crime scene in her life ‎- and he can only whisper in her ear as she does the exacting work he loved more than anything else‎.‎

• Binding‎:‎ Paperback
• Language of Text‎:‎ English
• Publication Year‎:‎ 1999
• Number of Pages‎:‎ 427
• ISBN‎:‎ 9780451188458