num_pages: 486
description: Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. Shes chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn however that the incident may not be an accident at all but the first in a series of intentional attacks. They find themselves up against one of their most formidable opponents ever: a brilliant killer who turns common products into murder weapons.As the body count threatens to grow Sachs and Rhyme must race against the clock to unmask his identityand discover his missionbefore more people die.
language: English
title: The Steel Kiss
publisher: Grand Central Publishing