Life and Career
Deaver was born outside Chicago in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Many of his books tend to promote lateral thinking, particularly his short story collection Twisted. One of his books, The Blue Nowhere, features criminal hackers (one using social engineering to commit murder), as well as a law enforcement computer crime unit. His most popular series features his regular character Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective, and Amelia Sachs. According to a 2006 interview on The Early Show, Deaver stated that he would rotate between his new series and Lincoln Rhyme each year. Virtually all of his works feature a trick ending, or sometimes multiple trick endings.
Deaver edited The Best American Mystery Stories 2009.
Three of Deaver's novels have been produced into films:
- The Bone Collector (1999)
- A Maiden's Grave as the TV film Dead Silence (1997)
- The Devil's Teardrop (2010), also a TV film
Deaver also created the characters and—in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers—wrote the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript narrated by Alfred Molina that was broadcast on Audible.com from September 25 to November 13, 2007.
Deaver was chosen to write an official new James Bond novel : Carte Blanche is set in 2011 and was published on 25 May 2011.
He is the second American author to write Bond novels, after Raymond Benson.
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