This is Deaver’s first book after The Bone Collector, which was made into a very good suspense movie with Denzel Washington, as Lincoln Rhyme, and Angelina Jolie, as Amelia Sachs. Rhyme is the quadriplegic criminalist and Sachs is his understudy, his feet and eyes for investigation. This story involves the same two characters and continues the development of their relationship. Despite Rhyme’s handicap, the sexual tension between him and Sachs is obvious. The name the “coffin dancer” comes from the tattoo on the arm of the highly successful assassin that Rhyme is tracking, which is the only information about him that anyone has. Throughout the book, Deaver makes fun of the book’s title and the name of this character as being overly melodramatic, which it is. This is the same assassin that Rhyme has encountered before failed to capture him. The character Dancer has apparently been hired by Phillip Hansen, a guy who is about to be indicted by the Feds for selling stolen military armaments, and Hansen needs three witnesses killed before they testify before the grand jury. The three people, Edward Carney, his wife Percey Clay, and pilot Brit Hale, who are starting a small private airline company, all witnessed what were apparently bags of evidence being thrown from a plane that carried Hansen. The action of this book all takes place in the 45 hours before the grand jury is scheduled to convene to consider the evidence against Hansen, so the action is fast. A line that Deaver repeats over and over about Dancer and his successful past assassinations and Rhyme’s inability to find him during the course of this book was, “His deadliest weapon is deception.” Deaver makes use of deception throughout the book. This was another good read, and Deaver is right in the middle of my power rotation.
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