Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep. Worse still, It was like Patterson couldn't decide whether or not he wanted to write a romantic suspense or paranormal thriller. The scientists are the bad guys, the really bad guys. Don't worry, that doesn't give away much of this exciting plot with both a female and male protagonist. There some good plot twists and several charming young characters as well as the two adult protagonists. Fortunately, they are on the same side of an epic battle heating up in the verdant Colorado mountains. G-men, doctors, newspeople, pharmaceutical industry, military, greedy capitalists--all are enlisted by Patterson in this fast-paced cross-genre adventure-mystery- sci-fi but not too far from the future story.

Max: An eleven-year-old girl with long blonde hair and emerald-green eyes. She is Matthew's older sister. She has white wings with silver-blue markings. Her wingspan is a little over nine feet. Frannie states that Max's IQ is in the 180s, although Max herself says that it is only 149. Her name is short for Maximum, and her test-subject name is "Tinkerbell".

James Patterson has exactly the same writing style as Dean Koontz. There are hits and misses. This, most definitely, was not a hit.

Licensed images from When the Wind Blows appear in the short book Sussex After the Bomb – What Will Happen to Newhaven, Lewes, The Ouse Valley, Seaford, Eastbourne and Brighton published by The Profession for Peace (1984). My reading of this book came about by accident; I have demolished every novel on my bookshelf. My boyfriend is a massive Patterson fan, and he handed me this book having not read it himself. This review is a first for me, in that it is my first ever book review, and that it is of my first ever James Patterson novel.The eleven-year-old girl was running as fast as she could from the hateful, despicable School. She was strong, but she was beginning to tire. As she ran, her long blond hair flared behind her like a beautiful silk scarf. She was pretty, even though there were dark, plum-colored circles under her eyes. It's sad that he chooses to include so much blasphemy and other very strong language. It tarnished the book for me and put me off re-reading others. There were also a couple of sex scenes which were slightly too graphic. As far as I'm aware, Patterson doesn't claim to be a Christian so I can't apply my own standards to his writing. It's just unfortunate that he chooses to include some of these things, he is such a good writer that he really doesn't need to.