In this tenth installment of the Alex Cross series, Cross once again battles the Wolf, the villain of the previous book. In London Bridges, the Wolf turns terrorist and holds several large cities hostage (New York, Washington, London, Tel Aviv and Paris), threatening to blow them up if he doesn’t received a whopping four billion dollar payout and the release of several hostages held in the Middle East.
James Patterson has clearly bought into the war on terror in writing this novel, as the Wolf is seen schmoozing with Al-Qaeda and several Middle Eastern heavyweights while threatening to end of the lives of tens of thousands of Westerners. While the Wolf very blasély blows up bridges and kills those few who can identify him by sight, Cross races against time to find and stop this Russian madman.
Filled with Patterson’s unique brand of red herrings that make no sense and go nowhere, and do nothing but confuse and frustrate the reader, London Bridges was just an okay read. Blame it on the fact that I’m a girl, but I became quite bored by the constant descriptions of weaponry, vehicles and military maneuvers. International terrorism just isn’t my cup of tea.
One more Alex Cross book read, only eight more to go, until Patterson publishes another of course.
Till next time, happy reading!
L :)
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