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PRAISE FOR DOUBLE CROSS:
"It was smart to hire two talented and very different readers for Patterson's latest blockbuster about now retired FBI psychiatrist and former ace profiler Alex Cross. Fernandez catches Alex's raspy wisdom with instant credibility (he's done Cross before, in London Bridges and Cross), and Stuhlbarg is full of lighter charm as the narrator and one of the two serial killers who are trying to spoil Cross's return to private practice. Stuhlbarg makes Alex's former FBI colleague Kyle Craig, who turned out to be a mass murderer nicknamed the Mastermind, as charismatic as he is deadly. Cross's other burden comes from a more conventional serial killer terrorizing the Washington area where Alex's lady is on the case. " (Publishers Weekly )
"Peter J. Fernandez and Dion Graham deliver a clear, fast-paced performance..." (AudioFile ) --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
"It was smart to hire two talented and very different readers for Patterson's latest blockbuster about now retired FBI psychiatrist and former ace profiler Alex Cross. Fernandez catches Alex's raspy wisdom with instant credibility (he's done Cross before, in London Bridges and Cross), and Stuhlbarg is full of lighter charm as the narrator and one of the two serial killers who are trying to spoil Cross's return to private practice. Stuhlbarg makes Alex's former FBI colleague Kyle Craig, who turned out to be a mass murderer nicknamed the Mastermind, as charismatic as he is deadly. Cross's other burden comes from a more conventional serial killer terrorizing the Washington area where Alex's lady is on the case. " (Publishers Weekly )
"Peter J. Fernandez and Dion Graham deliver a clear, fast-paced performance..." (AudioFile ) --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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Detective Alex Cross pursues the most ruthless killer he's ever encountered-to a land of sheer terror and back. It's the worst crime scene Alex Cross has ever seen, and then more killings, each one more ruthless than the last, quickly follow. After one death comes terrifyingly close to home, Alex realizes he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer.
Digging deeper into the case, Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, uncover a shocking Washington, D.C., underworld: a gang of teenage thugs headed by a warlord known only as the Tiger. When the Tiger's elusive trail turns up in Africa, Alex knows that he must follow. Unprotected and alone, can Alex manage to both survive and catch the killer?
Digging deeper into the case, Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, uncover a shocking Washington, D.C., underworld: a gang of teenage thugs headed by a warlord known only as the Tiger. When the Tiger's elusive trail turns up in Africa, Alex knows that he must follow. Unprotected and alone, can Alex manage to both survive and catch the killer?
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable,
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This review is from: Cross Country (Hardcover)
Alex Cross, book 14This 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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
too unbelievable,
By Tooth-picker "Laurie" (British Columbia, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cross Country (Hardcover)
At first I enjoyed this book, but then it became one close call after another. It became very unbelievable. I found myself wishing it would end.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
CROSS COUNTRY by James Patterson,
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This review is from: Cross Country (Mass Market Paperback)
I just read this book, CROSS COUNTRY by James Patterson. I found the quality of writing far below other books by James Patterson that I have read...it is extremely badly written. The story is totally unbelievable and unrealistic, the plot is murky and never satisfactorily explained, the story badly told.The hero (so called), "Alex Cross", seems a total fool. Stupid, clumsy and stubborn, he acts without rationality, in complete emotional stupidity, going to Nigeria, a brutal, violent African country where he knows no one, has no reliable contacts nor any authority to chase a supposed vicious gang leader of brutal African kids who are cruelly murdering entire American and foreign families in Washington, DC. Unbelievably, this physically immense, and presumably black, gang leader, apparently a Nigerian national, is completely unknown to any American authorities, including the Washington Police, the FBI, Customs or Immigration officials and seems to be able to travel freely back and forth between the US and Nigeria at will. There are murky contacts with the CIA, some good guys, some bad guys, but never decently explained. When the secret conspiracy IS finally revealed, it is done so superficially and comes as flacid anticlimax. If it were finally revealed to me that some talentless hack, other than James Patterson himself, actually wrote this miserable excuse for a story, it would not surprise me. On the other hand, if James Patterson himself wrote it, then I fear he has lost it. Im sorry to say it, but after this experience, I doubt that I will ever again waste any of my precious time on this earth reading another James Patterson novel.
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