It was with excitement I picked up the latest Alex Cross novel by James Patterson, titled Alex Cross, Run. It is #20 in the long running, exciting and suspense filled Alex Cross series by James Patterson.
And long running seems to be operative word. In Alex Cross, Run the author James Patterson seems to have run out of ideas and hashed one of the worst novels in the series - possibly excepting the boring Alex Cross’s Trial.
Usually every crime author tells the story with the presumption that two major crime rings or two serial killers out on a spree in the same town isn’t probable - perhaps even impossible. Mind you, I am talking about serial killers and not criminals.
Criminals can always be found ganging together in every capital city - weather Chennai, New Delhi or Washington D.C., and are usually referred to collectively as politicians or legislature.
:-P
BTP, detective Alex Cross looks clueless when investigating a double-act serial killers. The story sags and many of the characters we have come to love in an Alex Cross novel are a pale shadow of themselves. John Sampson makes a brief appearance, maybe 4 pages out of 400 in total and doesn’t say ‘Sugar’ even once.
The 3rd villain appears like an after thought. Reading the story I get the feeling that this character was hastily written and inserted into the novel, sort of patched in, once James Patterson found the original story-line lame.
My recommendation? You can safely skip Alex Cross, Run *even* if you are a serious Alex Cross fan. If you really want to read a real Cross novel, go grab your stashed copy of I, Alex Cross and read it - a far more scary and riveting tale than Alex Cross, Run will ever be.
And long running seems to be operative word. In Alex Cross, Run the author James Patterson seems to have run out of ideas and hashed one of the worst novels in the series - possibly excepting the boring Alex Cross’s Trial.
Usually every crime author tells the story with the presumption that two major crime rings or two serial killers out on a spree in the same town isn’t probable - perhaps even impossible. Mind you, I am talking about serial killers and not criminals.
Criminals can always be found ganging together in every capital city - weather Chennai, New Delhi or Washington D.C., and are usually referred to collectively as politicians or legislature.
:-P
BTP, detective Alex Cross looks clueless when investigating a double-act serial killers. The story sags and many of the characters we have come to love in an Alex Cross novel are a pale shadow of themselves. John Sampson makes a brief appearance, maybe 4 pages out of 400 in total and doesn’t say ‘Sugar’ even once.
The 3rd villain appears like an after thought. Reading the story I get the feeling that this character was hastily written and inserted into the novel, sort of patched in, once James Patterson found the original story-line lame.
My recommendation? You can safely skip Alex Cross, Run *even* if you are a serious Alex Cross fan. If you really want to read a real Cross novel, go grab your stashed copy of I, Alex Cross and read it - a far more scary and riveting tale than Alex Cross, Run will ever be.
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