Loved it, read it in 3 hours, I love the Alex Cross series, can't wait for the next one to come out. ( )

Alex Cross, book 14

This is another novel true to the author's style, short chapters, a story tense in development and an over the edge ending. This time, Alex is taken onto the heart of Africa where there are little or no rules.

The story starts when Alex Cross and Brianna (fellow detective) are called to a disturbing scene in Georgetown. A family has been brutally murdered it hits close to home when Alex discovers that the wife was once his college sweetheart. Leads into the investigation uncover ties to a group of Nigerians operating around DC. When another family is slain, Alex pursuits his instincts and travels to Africa searching for the killers on their own turf...

This novel highlights the atrocities we hear about in places like Darfur and Sierra Leone at times in a graphic manner, describing the rampant corruption of some government officials and the use of orphaned children in murderess gangs to terrorize the population. It also describes the other side: the loving and caring people that suffer the consequences.

This is an enjoyable mystery and a real page turner, one that gives us an insight into the history of a troubled part of the world in a way only Mr Patterson can. ( )

only listened to 1/3 of the tapes as it wasn't my kind of book. Went from america to Africa and got kind of grisley...yuk. I've been enjoying all the other patterson books, however.

Another Alex Cross mystery. This one has Alex traveling to Nigeria on the trail of a serial killer.

In a way this one seemed the purpose of this one wa to expose the horrors of genocide that is happening in Africa to the public, as much as to tell a fictional story. I found myself thinking "yea, right" after a while. Alex just went thru way to much trauma/drama in his search.

My other complaint, and this isn't the first book I've noted this about is that the chapters are at best 2 pages long, with most of them not even that. I find it really hard to get involved in the story this way. It seems like I'm constantly starting & stopping. ( )

It absolutely pains me to give James Patterson "3" stars, but I just could not get with this one. Alex Cross is one of my favorite characters and I've read all the books, but this one irritated the heck out of me. It was as if Alex had a labotomy. I didn't understand his motivation and behavior. I made it through because I just assumed that he must be getting old...Alex, not Mr. Patterson. This book has the classic Patterson action and it's a graphic novel in huge proportions. I just didn't like the story this time. ( )