Christ if he gave a brief description with each one it would probably add another 200 pages to his books. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing-and they are working coast to coast.

It helps that the antagonist is also in true Patterson style, pulled off well as incredibly evil and feels refreshingly memorable. As the story progresses he captures in vivid details, though blurred at times by the necessity of the plot, the fate that befell the Cross family in Cross My Heart (Alex Cross). Behind these three highly skilled killing machines there appears to be an even more threatening controller. The hunt for the murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to Washington's most infamous club-a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in.Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair-at the worst possible time for both of them.

Patterson employs his trademark short chapters and Cross does a lot of travelling around the country in this one, even surviving a car crash and “Duel”-type mountainside descent. So as not to reveal anything that might spoil the book for anyone who has not read it, I am going to stick to the flaws in the editing that make this a terrible read.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This book however was more like the old James Patterson with thrills spills, good characters told in the usual style of short punchy chapters.

I seem to have read a lot of books recently that include death by pigs - the first time I thought the author was making it up but it seems so popular in modern crime books I guess it must be true. This rating also comes after reading, and being quite annoyed with, the previous book in the series, Cross My Heart. But function he must if he has even the slightest chance of catching the diabolical killer and find his precious Nana Mama and the rest of his children alive. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories: is the marksman a hero or a vigilante?If you liked the early Alex Cross series then don't miss reading this one it was way better than any of the first novels in this series. The vendetta that drives the plot stems from a deontological Mulch wants Cross to detour from his ethical schema and devoid himself from any system of value that may render him vulnerable to emotional connections. To summarize: I love Patterson's machine gun writing style, but find the premise of the Alex Cross series tired and unrealistic, i. I missed the presence of his family in this book, as they were always part of the charm of the Alex Cross novels, but this one did not disappoint.

As the prosecution presents its case, and the nation watches, even those closest to Cross begin to doubt his innocence. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. I’ve been reading the Alex Cross series for a while now, and as it happens, have only missed five out of twenty two at least going what I can remember registering on Goodreads, including the latest Cross Justice.Mark this day on the calendar, folks: It's the first time in a while that I've given a James Patterson book 5 stars. I have not read many of the Alex Cross novels but James Patterson has such a fluidity to his writing that It did not feel like I was reading a book late in a series. When the kidnapper, Thierry Mulch (aka Marcus Sunday), contacts Alex with a proposition, Alex is staggered.