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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

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

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

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

My first DNF of the year, I've tried daily with it but this one just isn't my cup of tea!

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 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.