London Bridges (Alex Cross Novel) | James Patterson | London Bridge Comes Falling Down in the...

London Bridges (Alex Cross Novel) | James Patterson | Too many books being written every year

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	London Bridges (Alex Cross Novel) James Patterson Little, Brown and Company, 2004 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 298 reviews view larger image
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London Bridge Comes Falling Down in the Desert.

Their attitude has very little to do with you and everything to do with their own issues. We see again the FBI agent, Alex Cross, as he plays dangerous games with the Wolf who set off the explosion in Nevada (near where they reconstructed one of the London bridges). We also run into the Weasel, the ruthless assassin from a previous novel, 'Pop Goes the Weasel.'

The Wolf threatens to destroy major cities here and abroad in London and Paris. He is worst than any terrorist, as he is accomplished in the art of dynamite and mass destruction. In Salvador, Geoff Shaver, succumbs to the charms of young Maria, who is merely a lure to capture the Weasel. It is time to step out of the shadows and into the limelight -- someone you admire is waiting for you to strut your stuff and put your own unique spin on things. When Geoff discovers a monkey trying to get into the house via the window screen, he yells "Get out of here, you thief." Go On, Beat it! Maria stood her course, as she was promised big bucks for leading them to this master criminal. Alex must stop the conspiracy to harm the real London Bridge. Little does she know what kind of people she has been used by and what is in store for her.

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Too many books being written every year

I have been reading James Patterson's books since the first Alex Cross came out. I thought the first 3 or 4 Cross books were brilliant but since then I feel the standard has dropped gradually to where we reach London Bridges.

This book has a solid storyline that needed fleshing out but I think the author was in too much of a rush to get the book on the shelves to worry about the story.

Let me get this right - Alex's family are taken hostage in the final few pages of the book, we get a couple of pages devoted to Cross' work and then the family is returned. There was no discussion on the anguish Alex was facing, nothing on the fear that the family was facing, nothing written about this at all! It would have been better to have taken them at the start of the book and have the book devoted to the fear that Alex was facing and his determination to catch the Wolf and get his family back.

If Alex was so dedicated to catching the Wolf, why was he taking so many time-outs throughout the book to visit little Alex, have dinner with his numerous friends etc?

Most disappointing, Mr Patterson.

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