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Black Market by James Patterson is an intriguing look at what would happen to the financial world should terrorists take out Wall Street. That was the warning from the unknown, and with the crisis looming, Archer Carroll of the FBI special services and Caitlin Dillon, brilliant and well read lawyer, Leggi tutto

The actual plot is excellent but the story around a crash on Wall Street led by a one armed ex soldier with explosions, terrorism and a love story is too unbelievable. The dialogue is ridiculous and Carroll is a template for the later Michael Bennett series except with more children. Overall the act Leggi tutto

BLACK FRIDAY has a pretty good story concept, but the execution is just awful, making it the dumbest smart thriller I've ever read. Imagine THE DAY OF THE JACKAL if it had been written by the author of FIFTY SHADES OF GRAY, and you'll have some idea of what I mean. The dialog is trash, the character Leggi tutto

I really love James Patterson. I feel this book was very hard to keep my interest. I just couldn’t get into it. I didn’t want to just give up because there was one other book that I read a few years back from James Patterson that was hard to keep my interest as well, it it got better towards the end Leggi tutto

Quite an intelligent book to understand and follow, not my favourite from James Patterson, but his die hard fans should love it.

This Patterson crime-suspense novel from the late eighties is an interesting read today from our perspective in the next century. The plot of a terrorist attack on New York City and the crash of the stock market and hence the world economy somehow seemed much more apocalyptic thirty years ago than i Leggi tutto

A muddled first half finally gives way to a more standard Patterson thriller in the second. This isn't anything too special but as one of his earlier books, it gives the reader the template for many of his later novels.

This is my second James Patterson book, and compared to 'The Midnight Club', it is definitely inferior. The suspense goes on for far too long, the reader is constantly being reminded of both it and the fact that we know nothing about the antagonists, and the main character is always tired. The invar Leggi tutto

Follows the formula, strong start descends rapidly into drivel. Hero is a single father with a dead wife a la Alex Cross, vying with a criminal mastermind a la...Another cringeworthy love scene transacted days after the hero was shot... Appalling dialogue and general writing. And ridiculous scenario Leggi tutto

A story of deception, secret government sects, global terrorism, Vie-veteran guerrilla, bomb threats on Wall Street...set in the middle of Cold War. Cut the length in half and you might get a decent thriller. But as it is, the pace was too slow, the twists and turns too convoluted, the characters wer Leggi tutto