THE STONE MONKEY - A LINCOLN RHYME NOVEL BY JEFFERY DEAVER

The Stone Monkey is a 2002 thriller novel by Jeffery Deaver, featuring forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs as they hunt a notorious human smuggler known as "the Ghost" in New York City's Chinatown, racing to protect two families who witnessed his crimes from being silenced permanently. The plot involves a disastrous bust on a cargo ship, a desperate search for survivors, and a duel between Rhyme's forensic methods and the Ghost's brutal tactics, incorporating elements of Chinese culture and illegal immigration.