The Broken Window

New from Jeffery Deaver—be sure to read his critically acclaimed thriller
    THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND
    “A tour de force in which the suspense never flags. . . . Deaver . . . has no rivals in the realm of sneaky plot twists.”
    — Kirkus Reviews
    “If somebody wants to destroy your life, there’s nothing you can do about it.”
    Drawing on today’s very real threat of identity theft, Jeffery Deaver crafts a heart-pounding New York Times bestseller of frightening possibilities—featuring investigator Lincoln Rhyme
    THE BROKEN WINDOW
    “One of Deaver’s best. . . . Riveting. . . . This is one scary novel. Everything in it seems as plausible and easy as buying a purse on eBay.”
    — The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    “Deaver’s scarily believable depiction of identity theft in a total-surveillance society stokes our paranoia.”
    — Entertainment Weekly
    “Deaver’s thriller reminds us how vulnerable we really are.”
    — Library Journal
    “[A] scary, scary book. . . . What Deaver—a painstaking researcher—reveals about data mining is terrifying.”
    — San Jose Mercury News
    The Broken Window is available from Simon & Schuster Audio
    More praise for the Lincoln Rhyme thriller
    THE BROKEN WINDOW
    “One of the most unnerving of Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme novels . . . [with a] mad genius who is smarter and scarier than the genre’s garden-variety nut jobs.”
    — The New York Times
    “Entertaining. . . . The topical subject matter makes the story line particularly compelling.”
    — Publishers Weekly
    Investigative agent Kathryn Dance pursues a terrifyingly elusive killer in
    THE SLEEPING DOLL
    “[An] intricately plotted thriller. . . . A dazzling mental contest.”
    —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
    “The chase is on, and so are the surprises.”
    — Sacramento Bee
    “[A] pulse-pounder. . . . The procedural scenes are fascinating.”
    — Publishers Weekly
    Critics adore Jeffery Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme novels, “masterpieces of modern criminology”
    (Philadelphia Daily News)
    THE COLD MOON • THE TWELFTH CARD • THE VANISHED MAN
    THE STONE MONKEY • THE EMPTY CHAIR • THE COFFIN DANCER
    “Dazzling.”
    — The New York Times
    “Ingenious. . . . Deaver is a mastermind of manipulation. . . . Readers will be shocked and amazed at the end result.”
    — Library Journal
    “Devilishly intricate. . . . The likeably crusty Rhyme is always a delight.”
    — Booklist
    “Absorbing. . . . Like the CBS hit CSI , Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme books have nearly fetishized crime-scene procedures and technology.”
    — Entertainment Weekly
    “A crackling thriller.”
    — Chicago Sun-Times
    “Devious and heart-stopping.”
    — The Ottawa Citizen
    “This is as good as it gets. . . . The Lincoln Rhyme series is simply outstanding.”
    — San Jose Mercury News
    And read Jeffery Deaver’s explosive stand-alone bestsellers
    GARDEN OF BEASTS • SPEAKING IN TONGUES
    THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP • THE BLUE NOWHERE
    “A thrill ride between covers.”
    — Los Angeles Times
    “This is prime Deaver, which means prime entertainment.”
    — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
    “Deaver must have been born with a special plot-twist gene.”
    — Booklist
    “Keeps the pulse racing while challenging the emotions. . . . A masterful job of conveying incipient evil.”
    — The Orlando Sentinel (FL)
    “A fiendish suspense thriller. . . . Leaves us weak.”
    — The New York Times Book Review
    “High-tension wired. . . . Deaver . . . fills every keystroke with suspense.”
    — People

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To a dear friend,
the written word

I
    SOMETHING IN COMMON

    THURSDAY, MAY 12
    Most privacy violations are not going to be caused by the exposure of huge personal secrets but by the publication of many little facts. . . . As with killer bees, one is an annoyance but a swarm can be deadly.
    —R OBERT O’H ARROW , J R .,
    No Place to Hide

Chapter One
    Something nagged, yet she couldn’t quite figure out what.
    Like a faint recurring ache somewhere in your body.
    Or a man on the street behind you as you near your apartment . . . Was he the same one who’d been glancing at you on the subway?
    Or a