When a ship carrying Chinese citizens looking to sneak into the United States explodes and sinks off the coast of Long Island, the few survivors try to stay a step ahead of the snakehead they paid to smuggle them across the ocean who is looking to tie up loose ends.  Working with the INS and the FBI, Lincoln and Amelia, working with an undercover Chinese officer who survived the sinking boat, try to find the surviving immigrants before the snakehead can, while also trying to locate him and bring him to justice.

The Stone Monkey, the fourth entry in the Lincoln Rhyme series by Jeffery Deaver, is the 12th of the (soon to be) 15 entries in the series.  Now that I am armed with a library card, I’m sure I will track down whichever ones I haven’t already purchased and have waiting on my Kindle.