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Violence
A lot
Graphic violence — electrocution murders; infrastructure terrorism; confrontations
Language
Some
Moderate profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No meaningful substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Infrastructure weaponized — the killer's access to the grid; the randomness of the targets; Lincoln's forensic analysis of electrical evidence
What this book is about
Someone is hacking into New York's electrical infrastructure and using it to kill — directing fatal charges at specific people while making it look like random accidents. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs investigate a killer who has turned the city's power grid into a weapon. The Burning Wire is the tenth Lincoln Rhyme novel — Deaver's most prescient about infrastructure vulnerability and technology as a murder weapon.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Infrastructure terrorism — the electrical grid as a murder weapon
Prescient about technology vulnerabilities
Graphic violence — electrocution deaths
Tenth in the Lincoln Rhyme series
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