State Police is a young woman's corpse. With her flat and a valuable painting disappeared. Traces left by the criminal, clearly suggest that the murderer was denying everything detective Rhyme's cousin. Happy coincidence that makes the policemen investigating the case they learn that in recent times has been more committed similar crimes. Trail leads detectives to the serial, psychopathic killer who knows about their sacrifices everything, and throws nothing evidence to citizens. As it turns out, the matter may be implicated powerful Strategic Business Systems Datacorp, America's largest supplier of personal data.

Title Jeffery Deaver'a latest book refers to the well-known and widely used in criminology theory of broken windows. It is based on the observation that the lack of response to trivial offenses, such as stamping out windows in buildings, causes an increase in the number of major violations of social norms, and thus: a gradual intensification of the phenomenon of vandalism. "Broken Window" Deaver'a teeter on the border between tightly closed and window - in the book the author shows how easily cross the line between simple data mining, information theft, to which nobody reacts to the terrible, Uncombable stop crime.

Jeffery Deaver with great insight in the book shows the human characters. The reader is surprised by the apparent lack of heroism may be the detective and his rhyme, both life and professional partners - Sachs. Famous American series of strongly built and muscled policemen in the novel Deaver rarity. Rhyme is paralyzed - moves in a wheelchair and needs care twenty-four and Amelia Sachs suffers from arthritis. Force detectives are not hidden in their muscles, and cunning, which may thwart the killer ranks minds. However, the reader deserves the most attention was the killer. You learn it through numerous efforts undertaken by the killer showing that it is a facade and mentally unbalanced. Deaver well prepared for the presentation of the murderer - in detail plumbed the mysteries of the team impulsive, which fell on the killer.

I must admit that accompany the reader in the pages of a novel voltage does not disappear even one step. By so constructed his novel as to deceive and cheat the reader, they would simply fake it for the next clues. The book has one of the principal suspect. Most characters do not have an alibi, which only increases the tension.

Important topic, which moves in Deaver's novels are the limits of privacy and personal data protection. Large corporations collecting and examining data about consumers know about their private lives much more than a potential client would like to tell them. Comes to the fore the issue of safety and security of such data. What could happen if they fall into the wrong hands is perfectly described in the "broken window". Also on the same technology and science has not been ignored by the author. We live in the twenty-first century, during the development and growth of complex technological theory. It is much easier to catch than a psychopath with a knife pledge to champion traps capable of handling every single word change in the lives of millions of people, using only the database.

"Broken Window" is a perfect Crime. Plot of the novel step ahead of the event, which we can become ever witnessed. Deaver in his book not only provides a big dose of adrenaline, but it also tends to reflect on the future of science and technology, which - as not to look at - is to serve humanity, and should not cause a gradual fall-like breaking glass society.