Kill Alex Cross
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Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he's ever been part of. The President's son and daughter have been abducted from their school - an impossible crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn't want Cross too close.
A deadly contagion in the DC water supply threatens to cripple the capital, and Alex sees the looming shape of the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. He is already working flat-out on the abduction, and this massive assault pushes Cross completely over the edge.
With each hour that passes, the chance of finding the children alive diminishes. In an emotional private meeting, the First Lady asks Alex to please save her kids. But even the highest security clearance doesn't get him any closer to the kidnapper - and Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes in.
A deadly contagion in the DC water supply threatens to cripple the capital, and Alex sees the looming shape of the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. He is already working flat-out on the abduction, and this massive assault pushes Cross completely over the edge.
With each hour that passes, the chance of finding the children alive diminishes. In an emotional private meeting, the First Lady asks Alex to please save her kids. But even the highest security clearance doesn't get him any closer to the kidnapper - and Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes in.
I'm starting to go with so many other readers and thinking that maybe it's time to give up on Mr Patterson... he's been so disappointing lately, hardly a very good book appears anymore - and I don't know who writes his books anymore, also.
I've been reading Patterson for many years and was always a big fan, but now he just seems a factory of books, not necessarily good ones.
The Alex Cross books used to maintain the quality (with one or 2 exceptions), but this one... Alex was able to really annoy me, and he didn't even do anything special, just being is usual self, full of self confidence and strong opinions, that seemed to have to be better than all the others.
The President kids are kidnapped. At the same time, a terrorist cell is killing people and planning terrible things (arabs, of course, because they are always the guilty ones, right!? didn't like the stereotype a bit). Alex, being the greatest, solves the kidnapping, there's no connection to the terrorists, who just disappear. So, why were they there? To fill more pages? To make people more afraid and against Saudi people? And the police really has no idea of what's going on.
And what's with the book title? Just because the bad guy says it maybe 5 pages from the end of the book?
I expected a lot more from Patterson.
I've been reading Patterson for many years and was always a big fan, but now he just seems a factory of books, not necessarily good ones.
The Alex Cross books used to maintain the quality (with one or 2 exceptions), but this one... Alex was able to really annoy me, and he didn't even do anything special, just being is usual self, full of self confidence and strong opinions, that seemed to have to be better than all the others.
The President kids are kidnapped. At the same time, a terrorist cell is killing people and planning terrible things (arabs, of course, because they are always the guilty ones, right!? didn't like the stereotype a bit). Alex, being the greatest, solves the kidnapping, there's no connection to the terrorists, who just disappear. So, why were they there? To fill more pages? To make people more afraid and against Saudi people? And the police really has no idea of what's going on.
And what's with the book title? Just because the bad guy says it maybe 5 pages from the end of the book?
I expected a lot more from Patterson.
