02341cam a2200289 4500 413382588 TxAuBib 20200101120000.0 050214s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005042618 9780743260923 0743260929 (OCoLC)57694916 DLC DLC BAKER TxAuBib Deaver, Jeffery. The twelfth card : a Lincoln Rhyme novel / Jeffery Deaver. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005. 395 p. ; 25 cm. "The Twelfth Card is a two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to outguess Thompson Boyd - by all appearances a nondescript, innocuous man, but one whose past has turned him into a killing machine as unfeeling and cunning as a wolf. Boyd is after Geneva Settle, a high school girl from Harlem, and it's up to Lincoln and Amelia to figure out why." "The motive may have to do with a term paper that Geneva is writing about her ancestor, Charles Singleton, a former slave. A teacher and farmer in New York State, Charles was active in the early civil rights movement but was arrested for theft and disgraced. Assisted by their team, Fred Dellray, Mel Cooper and Lon Sellitto (suffering badly from a case of nerves due to a near miss by the killer), Lincoln and Amelia work frantically to figure out where the hired gun will strike next and stop him, all the while trying to determine what actually happened on that hot July night in 1868 when Charles was arrested. What went on at the mysterious meetings he attended in Gallows Heights, a neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that was a tense mix of wealthy financiers, political crooks like Boss Tweed and working-class laborers and thugs? And, most important for Geneva Settle's fate, what was the "secret" that tormented Charles's every waking hour?" --Book Jacket. 20200101. Rhyme, Lincoln (Fictitious character) Fiction. Police New York (State) New York Fiction. African American teenage girls Fiction. Murder for hire Fiction. Quadriplegics Fiction. Harlem (New York, N.Y) Fiction.