London Bridges

To prove his seriousness, he has already destroyed several small townships and a couple of bridges; this book inhabits a world where people will murder thousands just to prove that they are serious. Cross's usual ability to get inside the mind of a killer is far more of a problem when the killer is a man who has successfully erased his past, who communicates through cut-outs and expendable hirelings. Patterson's terse chapters and breakneck pacing are effective here--with its extended displays of insider knowledge and casual attitude to torture, this is not a likeable book, but it is a suspenseful one.--Roz Kaveney

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London Bridges (0/0 people found this helpful)

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.

London Bridges Falling Down. Not if Cross can Stop them! (0/0 people found this helpful)

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.

Not very good at all (1/1 people found this helpful)

Not one of James PAtterson's better books. And given the drivel the man produces on a depressingly regular basis, that is really saying something. You think he'd choose a ghost writer who knew at least a few of the basic tenets of creative writing (manipulating viewpoint, for example) but I guess in the end he just decided to go for the cheapest...

AMAZING AUTHOR.... (1/4 people found this helpful)

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE JAMES PATTERSON BOOKS, THE FIRST I READ WAS 'ALONG CAME A SPIDER' (WHICH I BORROWED FROM A FRIEND) AND I HAVE NEVER LOOKED BACK. I'D LIKE TO WRITE A REVIEW FOR ALL OF HIS BOOKS I HAVE READ BUT THERE ARE TOO MANY SO I WILL WRITE A GENERAL REVIEW. JAMES PATTERSON WRITES IN SUCH A WAY THAT KEEPS THE WRITER GRIPPED FROM START TO FINISH, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT'S COMING NEXT. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND ALL HIS BOOKS, MANY OF WHICH I SELL AT A LOW PRICE, CHECK THEM OUT. THANK YOU.

Superb! (0/2 people found this helpful)

Just brilliant.....James Patterson never ceases to deliver and this book is no exception. Sat down to read it and didn't move until it was finished....fast paced, exciting and enough depth to really get you thinking.

James Patterson

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