![]() ![]() When we first meet him, he is receiving visitors, his former friend and colleague, Lon Sellitto and another policeman. ![]() ![]() As a result he has access to extraordinary technology, not only assistive wheelchairs and top of the range vehicles, but a state-of-the-art sound system and television and even a $200 down pillow. He is wealthy, having received a substantial payout as compensation for his injury. Rhyme is a high-level quad, unable to move anything from the neck down except his little finger. There was, however, something that was not quite right, but I could not pin it down at the time. ![]() I was intrigued by Rhyme, whose story I could at least partially relate to. The novel was okay – a light enough and sometimes thrilling read – and I was just happy at the time to be able to get my head into a book. The novel was recommended to me because the central character, Lincoln Rhyme, was a quadriplegic. The first e-book I downloaded to the Amazon Kindle app (and I have spent a fortune since) was by Jeffrey Deaver, The Bone Collector, also made into a movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. A few months after my accident I was given the present of an Apple iPad, a brilliant invention for those of us with kacky hands, since sliding fingers is enough to make it work. ![]()
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