An NYPD criminalist, a quadriplegic since a line-of-duty accident, must use his wits to track a killer who's been hired to eliminate three witnesses before their grand jury testimony.
When wheelchair-bound criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is asked by the North Carolina police to help out with two local kidnapping cases, he has no idea that the kidnapper will come between him and everything he holds dear, especially his protegee and love, Amelia Sachs.