NOVELS
The Colter Shaw Series
The Never Game
The Lincoln Rhyme Series
The Cutting Edge
The Burial Hour
The Steel Kiss
The Skin Collector
The Kill Room
The Burning Wire
The Broken Window
The Cold Moon
The Twelfth Card
The Vanished Man
The Stone Monkey
The Empty Chair
The Coffin Dancer
The Bone Collector
The Kathryn Dance Series
Solitude Creek
XO
Roadside Crosses
The Sleeping Doll
The Rune Series
Hard News
Death of a Blue Movie Star
Manhattan Is My Beat
The John Pellam Series
Hell’s Kitchen
Bloody River Blues
Shallow Graves
Stand-Alones
The October List
No Rest for the Dead (Contributor)
Carte Blanche (A James Bond Novel)
Watchlist (Contributor)
Edge
The Bodies Left Behind
Garden of Beasts
The Blue Nowhere
Speaking in Tongues
The Devil’s Teardrop
A Maiden’s Grave
Praying for Sleep
The Lesson of Her Death
Mistress of Justice
SHORT FICTION
Collections
Ice Cold (Editor)
A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime (Editor)
Trouble in Mind
Triple Threat
Books to Die For (Contributor)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (Editor)
More Twisted
Twisted
Individual Stories
Buried
The Second Hostage
Verona
The Debriefing
Ninth and Nowhere
Captivated
The Victims’ Club
Surprise Ending
Double Cross
The Deliveryman
A Textbook Case
THE GOODBYE MAN
Jeffery Deaver
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2020
First published in the US in 2020 by Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008303785
Ebook Edition © May 2020 ISBN: 9780008303808
Version: 2020-04-22
For Jane Davis, with boundless gratitude
What a journey I have made, the things I have seen … Give me a jug of water and human flesh. Give me air to breathe and a strong sailing wind when I rise from the underworld.
BOOK OF THE DEAD, EGYPTIAN FUNERARY TEXT
Contents
Also by Jeffery Deaver
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
One: The Man on the Cliff