Alex Cross’s beloved DC is in turmoil as Saudi terrorists unleash deadly
attacks upon the city at a time when all the alphabet agencies are already
scrambling about trying to locate the two kidnapped children of the President
of the United States. Is there a connection?
The misleading title, a two-pronged storyline that proceeds at two different
paces and with varying degrees of suspense, the overall similarity (at least of
the kidnap scenario) to a previous (and stellar) Alex Cross novel (Along Came a
Spider) and various questions unasked and/or unanswered make for an embarrassingly
tepid reading in James Patterson’s latest Kill Alex Cross (Little Brown & Co, 384p,
Isbn-0316198730).
There’s no mistaking that the quality of Patterson’s writing continues to shrink along
with the length of his chapters.
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