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The Twelfth Card (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeffery Deaver
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  93 reviews
Sales Rank: 348169
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
ASIN: B000BLNPBO
Publication Date: June 7, 2005
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Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protege, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history -- in the bestseller that proves "there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver" (San Jose Mercury News).
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 Terrible Audio performance ruins an otherwise decent thriller. August 1, 2008
Buyer beware of the Publishers Weekly and AudioFile reviews on this webpage. If Dennis Boutsikaris is an "accomplished" actor and narrator, then George W. Bush is an "accomplished" orator and Paris Hilton is an "accomplished" actress. Boutsikaris's performance is not "glib" either, as they claim. His attempts at rendering street language of African-Americans sounds like a black comedian's parody of a clueless white guy trying to sound cool in that way. His normal English narration is also awful. Case in point: throughout the book he mispronounces the word "garrotte" as though it were the word "garret." This came as no surprise to me, I regret to say, as I previously had the misfortune of listening to Boutsikaris narrate another audiobook, The Traitor (see my review), throughout which he mangles French words with a horrific accent and frequent mispronunciation and also attempts to render English spoken with a French accent with all the skill and grace of a bull elephant in a tutu. (Yes, I bought both audiobooks at the same time; had I heard the other performance beforehand, I never would have purchased this one!) That book was already mediocre, so the damage was not as great as it is here, where an otherwise well-crafted thriller, of the sort we've come to expect from Jeffery Deaver, is nearly ruined. Note to Simon & Schuster: If this is the best performer you can find for a project like this, abandon it!
Lest anyone think my criticism is too harsh, I note that as of this writing, Amazon sellers are offering this audiobook on CDs for a mere 20 cents! The marketplace speaks -- caveat emptor. Should you decide to be an emptor anyway for 20 cents, well, it's your money to waste as you see fit, but don't forget the cost of shipping. In my opinion, Simon & Schuster should pay YOU to listen to this audiobook!
NOT GREAT July 31, 2008
I've been a big Jeffery Deaver (Lincoln Rhyme) fan since I started with The Bone Collector which is his best book to date. However, this is by far his worst book for me. It was your typically Deaver book with lots of twists and turn. When it came to the climatic conclusion, I just wasn't that thrill about it. Overall, the pacing was good, the characters are ok, but not his best effort and a real disappointment for me.
 Cannot be taken seriously February 25, 2008
I have read several Jeffery Deaver books and I think he's generally a good writer. Although, in The Twelfth Card, so far the black characters have used such timely 2005 phrases like "Righteous" (think 70's), "Word" and "Buggin'" (think 1993, Fresh Prince of Bel Air), and the term "Benjamins" as referring to a wad of twenty dollar bills that have Andrew Jackson on them, NOT "Benjamin" Franklin.
Isn't there ANY research that could have been done before the writing of this book? Like maybe turning on a TV or watching a movie made in this decade?
One of Deaver's weaker efforts January 28, 2008
I am an casual Deaver fan. Even though his stories are usually not so realistic, I still enjoy his books a lot because of the action and suspense that he's known for and great at. I've read about five or six of his books so far and this one is really not up to par with the others. The book was long but nothing really ever happened. We got pages and pages of back stories and personal reflections that had very little to do with driving the plot forward. The whole story just kind of dragged, which really magnified the lack of believability of the characters. The final twists were pretty lame, too.
What happened with this one January 24, 2008
I love Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series but this one just fell way short of his previous books. It did not hold my interest very well at all. I found myself skipping ahead just so I could get to the end and start another book. The "ghetto" talk was ridiculous (sp), too over the top and that was really annoying. I have not read the next one yet but am hoping it's just as good as all the others minus this one.
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