London Bridges
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I have to say I disagree with the people who have given this book a low rating. London Bridges is one of the best in the Alex Cross series so far. It's got action and tension throughout the story. I found it a really good read, well worth it I say.
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Don't waste your time or money
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This would have to be one of the most badly written books I have ever wasted time on. Most of it just did not make sense - like trying to have a conversation with someone who is high. Really disjointed and poor character development. Why was this published? Bizarre.
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Suspenseful and entertaining.
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It has to be admitted that James Patterson is not overwhelmingly renowned for lengthy chapters that go into immense detail and consideration, forcing the reader to make difficult presumptions about plots and characters. Patterson's suspense thrillers have to be taken as just that - mass market novels that give a jump of surprise and a cliff-hanger of suspense, before relieving or shocking the reader until an exciting conclusion is given to a panting observer. 'London Bridges' does just that. It considers a world in which crazy antagonists do crazy things, in which the hero has, quite literally, to save the plot, and bring some sort of normality back to a novel of electric suspense. The literature and language is not amazing, and neither is the tendency to write chapters shorter than ten pages. But as an entertaining holiday read, what more could one want?
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London Bridges
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This was my first Patterson book so I can't compare it to his other books. After reading some of the reviews here my expectations were low, and while the book wasn't great it wasn't awful either. The plot seems to be taken from a James Bond movie and while it's not very fresh or inspired, the plot moves quickly and the pace only slows down in the parts dealing with Alex Cross's private lives. These sequences didn't add anything to the plot. Perhaps they are relevant to some larger story arc throughout the series, I don't know.
Overall, I found "London Bridges" to be an entertaining, if somewhat uninspired, thriller. A quick read.
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London Bridges Falling Down. Not if Cross can Stop them!
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Alex Cross is back, only this time he's not just after your ordinary run of the mill, mad as a hatter, serial killer. The Wolf, from Patterson's "The Big Bad Wolf" is back too. Only this time he's not dealing in women and guns. And the battle of wits between these two makes for an explosive novel as Patterson ratchets up the death and destruction that will befall the world if Cross fails to stop the Big Bad Wolf in time.
It starts in the Crescent Valley, in a small town called Sunrise in Nevada. Soldiers in the uniform of the National Guard evacuate the town just before a bomb turns the town into rubble. Days later another town is destroyed, but this time no one got out alive. Terrorists have struck again, but what terrorists?
Cross is heading up a the joint FBI, CIA and all the other alphabet agencies, including Interpol, when he spies someone he knows in a photo taken by some rock climbers. It's Geoffrey Shafter, also known as the Weasel, a psycho killer who Cross had faced off with years ago in Patterson's supberb book "Pop Goes the Weasel". Shafter had been photographed videotaping the destruction of the town. Then a city in Scotland is destroyed and Cross finds out that the Weasel is working for the Wolf and the Wolf has planted bombs on bridges in New York, Washington, London and Frankfurt and he wants billions not to make them come falling down.
This is Patterson to the Nth degree. Nail-bitting, hard-hitting suspense to the max. And this is Patterson the way his fans have come to know him, a thriller writer who manages to top each book with a faster-paced story full of danger and death and good guys and bad guys. How can he possibly top this one.
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