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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. Read more »

This short film is part of our lost video collection from when we first visited Morocco in 2010. It was a little wild in Morocco at that time and being tall Europeans we stood out like a sore thumb making us an absolute target for the locals. The whole time we were then we were being approached by unwanted salesmen, scammed several times until we realised what was going on, and generally ignored in the cafes and restaurants presumably because of either local religious reasons or because I was with my wife. That being said we visited a few years later after the King of Morocco wanted to create an environment that would attract more foreign visitors and we found it felt a lot safer with much less unsolicited encounters. If you would like to see more videos like this then check out our YouTube channel – ‘Walking Talking Gardeners’. It is absolutely free to subscribe and you can unsubscribe immediately at any time.