Lincoln Rhyme

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Lincoln Rhyme is a character in a series of books by Jeffery Deaver. He is a retired criminalist who is a quadriplegic due to an accident during one of the crime scenes he was working on, in an underground subway. However, he can still move his left ring finger and has regained his grasping function in his right hand through NFS. He lives in a New York apartment, which overlooks Central Park. On his window sill there is a nest of peregrine falcons. In the 1999 film adaptation of The Bone Collector, he is portrayed by Denzel Washington.

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Thom is Lincoln's caregiver, who is the longest serving caregiver as most are driven away by Lincoln's sarcastic abuse.
Amelia Sachs is Lincoln's protégé and lover.
Lon Selitto is a detective for NYPD.
Fred Dellray is a FBI agent who appears in the first few frequently, but slowly becomes a less frequent visitor. He helps Lincoln get his evidence processed quickly, like the IFS. He is an undercover agent and is nicknamed "Chameleon".
Mel Cooper is the lab technician who analyzes the evidence. He is rather soft-spoken, lives with his Mother, but has a girlfriend, a model, and is a champion ballroom dancer.
Kara is a young female magician, who helps Lincoln and the others by offering her advice on magic in The Vanished Man.
Sonny Li is an undercover cop for China who is after Gui the human smuggler and murderer. He is later killed by Gui.
Roland Bell is an FBI agent who specializes in witness protection and calls it SWAT, or "Saving Witnesses' Ass Team".
Ron Pulaski made his first appearance in The Twelfth Card. Lincoln finds it hard to get rid of the habit of calling him "rookie".
Parker Kincaid is a disputed documents analyst.
Kathryn Dance is a kinesics analyst who works for the California Bureau of Investigation. She made her first appearance in The Cold Moon.