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James Patterson
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Pages: 400 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 1846057019
Pub: Century
Pub date: 2009-09-10
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3733
Editorial Review:
Over the years, James Patterson has consolidated a reputation as one of the most copper-bottomed treasures in the crime genre with his Alex Cross books, and he has perfected a canny (but highly persuasive) economy in his narratives: his clipped, highly charged, pithy chapters possess not an ounce of subcutaneous fat (and frequently move towards some kind of unresolved climax, guaranteeing that we have to turn to the next chapter). Alex Cross’s Trial, the latest outing, is something very different for his quadriplegic investigator, but Patterson (as ever) displays the page-turning skills that are his trademark (assuming, of course, that the bulk of the book is his work – this is another of his many portmanteau efforts; from his army of co-authors, he here utilises Richard Dilallo).
The innovations in Alex Cross’s Trial involve nothing less than Alex himself narrating the story of young Washington lawyer Ben Corbett who lived at the turn of the Nineteenth Century.
Ben is highly adept at his job, but is still regarded by his wife and father as something of a failure, wasting his time (as they see it) by doing unremunerative work for the poor and oppressed. Then, to his amazement, Ben receives a summons to the White House – President Roosevelt, no less, has selected him personally to help look into lynchings performed by a newly emergent Ku Klux Klan.
As an insight into Alex Cross’ background, this is both illuminating and provocative, but James Patterson (and his collaborator) prove quite as adroit at a historical narrative as at a contemporary one. --Barry Forshaw
Reader Reviews:
Trial (0/0 people found this helpful)
Fantastic book, I needed this to complete the whole series, its gripping and you just cant put it down, I'm sad that James Patterson has finished the Alex Cross series :-(
fantastic read (0/0 people found this helpful)
this book is a fantastic read taking you back i time to when roosavelt was in power. excelant book and to the same standard as all of James Pattersons books
Trial (0/0 people found this helpful)
Trial by James Patterson was very different to his other books. I enjoyed and actually learnt a lot about slavery Etc. I couldnt put it down. Fantastic reading.
I,Alex Cross (0/0 people found this helpful)
The book is very good, the ser'vice from Amzon is very good , but I paid postage why ? Mr C R Hawker
Patterson at his usual best (0/0 people found this helpful)
I really enjoyed this book and had it read in a very short time. It was just what I would expect from James Patterson (one of my favourite authors), unpredictable, exciting and compulsive reading.
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