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Title: The Big Bad Wolf: A Novel by James Patterson ISBN: 0-316-60290-6 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 17 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.05 (190 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: He huffed, he puffed, but he didn't blow me away
Comment: "Big Bad Wolf" is James Patterson's latest Alex Cross novel. In it, Cross is still in training for his job at the FBI. He is taken off student status to consult on a rash of high profile kiddnappings, including a federal judges wife. He eventually figures out that the kiddnappings are being organized by a Russian mob don called the Wolf, because of his ruthlessness. But on the homefront, Cross has just as drastic problems. Christien, his former girlfriend, has returned to take custody of their son, Little Alex. I have a real soft spot for Patterson's novels. They are very fast paced (each chapter is only about three pages) with action that will leave you on the edge of your seat, and certainly this book is no exception. His villians are a mixed bag. They are usually so egomanical that they are very hard to relate too, but they are also so over the top psychotic that you don't want to, either. The Wolf is not as slick (I don't think) as some earlier villians (like Cassanova). Another problem is there are so many red hairings. You think this guy is Wolf, but he isn't; in fact at the end of the book, that isn't resolved at all. But Patterson dose that a lot; leave his books as an open cliffhanger. That gets on my nerves. I also thought the family problems were very distracting, I really could have done with out the custody case. But the kidnappings were pretty cool, and the idea of a whole network of perverts and psychos buying slaves from snatched soccer moms was truelly terrifying. It's a pretty uneven book, but I'll give it the benifit of the doubt.
Rating: 3
Summary: Who Swiped the Ending
Comment: The Wolf is a Russian criminal, head of the Red Mafiya, who was brought into the States by the CIA and now he wants to be the head don of American Crime. He bribes a guard at a maximum security prison and gets in to meet an American Mafia don, ostensibly to offer a merging of organizations, but he kills the American criminal and breaks all the bones in his body, a Russian Mafiya custom known as zamochit.
Alex Cross is a new agent in at Club Fed, what the recruits call the FBI Training Academy in Quantico. He has only been there for six weeks, when the Director of the FBI takes him out of school to help work on an abduction case. Someone is kidnapping women, and sometimes young men too. They are never heard from again and because of Alex's uncanny ability of bringing serial killers to justice, the director wants him on the case.
Alex quickly figures out that these are not normal kidnappings. There is no pattern and there is a team involved. These people are being bought, either as sex slaves or something worse.
And as Alex is chasing the the Wolf, the Wolf is watching him and that's just about as far as I'm going with this review. Alex Cross has always been one of my favorite fictional characters, but something happened here that I don't understand. Every time there's a breakthrough in the case, Alex is pulled off it and sent back to school, something that not only made no sense, but also something that the real Alex Cross would never stand for.
It was disappointing to see Alex knuckle under and it was horribly out of character for him. Also I don't have to worry about giving away the ending of the story, because there was no ending. Mr. Patterson just seemed to give up on the book, or maybe he wrote a super long novel and divided it in half, giving us part one this year and holding out on part two till next Christmas. I don't think that's fair. I felt cheated and this book only gets three stars from me.
Reviewed by Vesta Irene
Rating: 4
Summary: Strong action, well-sustained suspense
Comment: With neck-snapping plot twists, Patterson delivers the suspense, but depends largely on the action and anxiety to sustain the dramatic tension. My greatest pleasure as a reader - and I read piles of books - is derived from expertly crafted and rapid scene shifts that leave the reader begging for more. I call it the tantric approach. The best example of stunning achievement in this regard is IGUANA by Jude St. James... and... to some degree, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
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Title: 3rd Degree by James Patterson, Andrew Gross ISBN: 0316603570 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Blow Fly: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell ISBN: 0399150897 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 13 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Split Second by David Baldacci ISBN: 0446530891 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Last Juror by John Grisham ISBN: 0385510438 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Bleachers by John Grisham ISBN: 0385511612 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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