The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross)

I have just recently gotten back into this series. Could not put this one down! Lots of turmoil and angst from new characters, old ones. I like that it was not a one and done with the bad guy...looking forward to the continuation.

When they were Soviets, Russians were beyond the pale on prolonging nerve numbing suffering and slow death. Privatized, the folks that were the pillars of such a community among Soviets, had only to profit from their grim science. This book touches a nerve in those of us studied on criminals that have stretched exotic features of inflicting pain from Ivan the terrible to Nikita Khruchev in Russia and Nazism in Germany and the USA, and also the alt-right phenomena released to public demonstration to intimidate targeted communities during the Donald Trump presidential campaign and beyond. I felt like the thuggery I fought during the1960s,'70s and '80s is still a problem for Alex Cross in the early years of the 21st Century.

James Patterson never disappoints his readers! Alex Cross is once again pulled into the chase to fine the Russian Mafia leader, code name the Wolf and the reader is pulled along for the ride. The tangles of webs James Patterson weaves is amazing; no dull reading and then.....the cliff hanger! Have already started the next book. Great read!

This book was exciting and full of suspense! The details kind of reminded me of "Kiss the Girls" (one of his best) with a very different twist. Patterson did leave me wondering, "What just happened," after a few chapters, but I still could not put it down - page after page, I NEEDED to know what happened next! The ending, like a few of his novels, was a bit disappointing - again, it left me thinking, "What just happened?" But all in all, the book was great. I was able to finish it in about 12 hours, and I have a toddler who doesn't like when I read! I can't wait for James Patterson's next book.

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