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Hořící drát
Author: Jeffery Deaver
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Hořící drát transforms a city’s electrical infrastructure into a threat. Lincoln Rhyme investigates attacks in which everyday technology becomes dangerous and difficult to predict.
Hořící drát is a crime thriller in Jeffery Deaver’s series featuring Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachsová. This time, the electrical grid becomes a deadly weapon. The perpetrator causes devastating discharges of extreme voltage and heat. When a city bus is reduced to melted metal, initial suspicion points to terrorism, and Lincoln Rhyme joins the investigation.
Book information
- Author
- Jeffery Deaver
- Publisher
- Albatros Media a.s.
- Imprint
- Domino
- Formát
- E-book
- Language
- Czech
- Genre
- thriller, krimi, forenzný thriller
- Original title
- The Burning Wire
- ISBN
- 978-80-749-8079-4
- Publication date
- 22. April 2016
- Pages
- 450
- E-book formats
- PDF (ISBN 978-80-749-8080-0)
What is Hořící drát about?
A modern city faces an adversary who exploits infrastructure essential to daily life. Electricity, normally invisible and ubiquitous, becomes a weapon in his hands. After a devastating bus attack, Rhyme analyzes clues and sends Amelia Sachsová and Ron Pulaski into the field. The investigators must understand the technical background, anticipate further moves, and work under the threat of more victims. Deaver combines forensic investigation with a technological threat and the tension characteristic of the Lincoln Rhyme series.
Themes and motifs
Electricity as a weapon
The perpetrator uses the grid and destructive discharges to carry out attacks.
Forensic investigation
Rhyme reconstructs the perpetrator’s actions from physical and technical evidence.
Vulnerable infrastructure
The threat emerges from a system essential to modern society.
Technology and crime
The investigation depends on understanding the grid’s technical capabilities.
Setting
A contemporary city and the electrical infrastructure involved in a series of dangerous attacks.
Main characters
Lincoln Rhyme
A forensic criminalist leading the investigation through detailed evidence analysis.
Amelia Sachsová
Rhyme’s partner, working in the field and at crime scenes.
Ron Pulaski
A police officer involved in field investigation.
Who is this book for?
For readers of crime thrillers, forensic mysteries, and Lincoln Rhyme, especially those interested in technology-based crimes.
Book context
The Burning Wire originally appeared in 2010 and belongs to the Lincoln Rhyme series. SOURCE_FACT dates this Czech e-book to April 22, 2016, with 450 pages. AudioSpace’s database contains another candidate for the same work under product ID 28752.
Séria a poradie
- Lincoln Rhyme – tento titul je 9. diel
Otázky o knihe
What is Hořící drát about?
Rhyme investigates attacks in which the electrical grid is used as a deadly weapon.
Who wrote it?
Jeffery Deaver.
What is the original title?
The Burning Wire.
Is it part of Lincoln Rhyme?
Yes, the series featuring Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachsová.
Which installment is The Burning Wire?
The author’s official chronology lists it as the ninth Lincoln Rhyme novel.
What is Amelia Sachsová’s role?
Rhyme sends her into the field to work at crime scenes and collect evidence.
How many pages does this e-book have?
SOURCE_FACT lists 450 pages.
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