terrible disappointment. unintelligent and tedious writing, unsympathetic characters, and predictably silly and lazy ending. don't waste your time.

On the morning Karen Friedman learns that her husband, a hedge fund manager, has been tragically killed, Detective Ty Hauck begins his investigation of another man's death in a suspicious hit-and-run in Karen's hometown. The two seemingly unrelated tragedies are about to plunge a beautiful widow and a determined investigator into a maelstrom of murder, vast sums of missing money, and international conspiracy. ( )

Front the inside flap: An explosion rips through New York City's Grand Central Station one morning destroying the train Karen Friedman's husband, a successful hedge fund manger is riding in to work.

On the front of this book is a quote "The Dark Tide takes off like a rocket and doesn't slow down until the final, shocking twist." --Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Power Play and Killer Instinct

I don't exactly agree with this statement. I felt the beginning was kind of slow, even with the explosion and a hit and run, the possible connection between the two. I felt like I was a little bird being feed bread crumbs, following along a path, and then, OH LOOK! There are cookie crumbs on that other path. So I start down this path, then I look at the other path and I notice, hey those bread crumbs are from cinnamon toast, I love cinnamon toast! But then, there are chocolate cake crumbs on that third path over there!

That is The Dark Tide was to me a gradual increase in speed as I tried to gather all the information from each story line and then they all started to come together into a big pile of crumbs but I knew, I knew I just shouldn't dive right in. Danger Will Robinson!

Also the final shocking twist wasn't that much of a shock to me, from different clues in the book, I had a feeling about who one the major bad guys was and I was right. All in all I enjoyed this book, I felt it had a believable plot and good character development. I might even read another one if I can fit it into one of my challenges.

Took me a little longer to read than usual have been busy, but every time I picked it this book up it was hard to put down. Pretty easy to follow and very much like James Patterson writes very well. High recommendation if you like James Patterson. ( )

quick read, brain candy, predictable ( )