Recruited to help the FBI and the INS perform the nearly impossible, the brilliant criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City -- a vessel filled with illegal Chinese immigrants and run by the notorious human smuggler and ruthless killer known as the Ghost. But when the Ghost's capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race against time: to stop him before he can track down and murder the two surviving families ...
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Recruited to help the FBI and the INS perform the nearly impossible, the brilliant criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City -- a vessel filled with illegal Chinese immigrants and run by the notorious human smuggler and ruthless killer known as the Ghost. But when the Ghost's capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race against time: to stop him before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have escaped and now vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of NewYork's Chinatown.
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"The Stone Monkey" is a Deaver Lincoln Rhyme formula. The main characters are flat, as usual. Sachs really may as well be a man. It seems Deaver only finds women admirable if they have male hobbies and attitudes. They still have to look great, though. The villain is the most interesting -- better than usual -- but women are nothing but despised sex objects to him too. I realize he is Chinese and the culture is very patriarchal but it was still disgusting. I doubt Deaver realizes that women are his largest audience. Rampant sexism typical of Deaver's books aside, I found this book better than most of the later Rhyme books. The plot has an unusual millieu and is never dull. The book is hard to put down.
