retrieve the aid of a doctor, to assist in his own suicide. However, the doctor decides not to help Lincoln Rhyme kill himself and leaves. Rhyme decides to help the New York Police Department in trying to catch the unknown serial killer. At first Rhyme isn't very interested in the case, however, eventually he finds something that has disappeared in his life over the last few years, pleasure. Lincoln Rhyme is very set in his ways and has his own method of doing his work, and it is this characteristic which makes him the best forensics scientist in the state of New York. Rhyme is very literal when it comes to physical evidence, and this is why this case challenges Rhyme. No longer can he just look at the evidence and catch the killer, he has to place himself in the shoes of the killer and go more in depth and find the real meaning about the evidence. However, Lincoln Rhyme's biggest challenge is his physical disability, and how it does not allow him to investigate the crime scene himself.
             Parker Kincaid had recently retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's forensics department. While there he was the top document examiner in the country. And now retired, Kincaid continues to examine document, specifically historical documents from past political leaders that were questioned to have been forged
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