TWELFTH CARD_THE. (J.Deaver), HB

A 16-year-old Harlem girl is the target of a vicious killer. Thompson Boyd's methods make him highly successful --- and highly lethal. Play it by the book, his father taught him, a lesson Boyd learned well. But what does a skilled hit man want with a teenage African-American student What possible motive could there be Geneva Settle is a hardworking, nose-to-the-grindstone kind of kid. Maybe she's not so popular at Langston Hughes High, but that isn't grounds for killing her.