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The “Black Friday” of this 1986 suspense novel has nothing to do with post-Thanksgiving shopping – or with the Fisk-Gould financial crisis of 1869, or the 1993 bomb attack in Mumbai, or the schlocky 1940 horror film with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, or the jaunty 1975 hit single by rock band Steel 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

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

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

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