The Stone Monkey: Jeffery Deaver

Lincoln Rhyme IV. Recruited to help the US government perform the almost impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs manage to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the the Ghost. But when the Ghost's capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia are racing against time to stop the Ghost before he can discover and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community. Over forty-eight harrowing hours, the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families, while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different line of police work, forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences to her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.