Bleh. Couldn’t hardly finish this. And I wasn’t even reading it, I listened to it all at work. It still took me over 2 weeks to slog through it.

Alex Cross continues to wow both law enforcement and criminals alike with his brains. Except he seems like such a ninny I can’t see why. Several times what should have been obvious to the dumbest person went over the head of Cross, his girlfriend Brianna who’s heading the case, and Samson. Cross has morphed into a horny Mary-Sue over the course of the last few books. Maybe he always was. I tend to refer to the movie characterization of him to heavily. I haven’t read all the Cross books.

Anyway, so there’s a killer who calls himself an actor or some such nonesense who plays different characters for each murder. Whatever. Only, shock, he’s actually 2 people. And a former foe (I’m assuming the way it was worded, I haven’t actually read any books with him in) Kyle Craig escapes an “unescapable” maximium security prison (apparently not so much) in a totally stupid and unbelievable way.

Oh! And dear Mr. Patterson, on that subject. I’ve watched enough CSI and Law and Order to know lawyer/client privilege doesn’t mean the lawyer wouldn’t get searched and there wouldn’t be a guard at least watching the meeting, even if he couldn’t HEAR IT! Otherwise we’d have lawyers sneaking crap into their clients all the time! But no, I’m sure a lawyer could easily sneak in a perfect replica of both their faces, put them on with no mirrors and not look wonky, and switch clothing unnoticed. Really.

The ending’s boring and uneventful. Except maybe for like 5 seconds there of the the Cross/Kyle Craig face-off. I got a brief hoyay almost Mylar-esque vibe between them that interested me but then that fizzled. I didn’t actually stick around for the end, END as in final paragraph but I got most of it out of the way.

And also? It grossed me out how often Cross would, during THE MURDER INVESTIGATION, stop to think how hot he was for Bri. How he wanted to do her right there. While looking at murder photos. Freak. And they can just stop telling us how freaking great a parent he is. He’s never home, he finally gets a night off and what’s he do? Go home to his family? NO! He spends the night in a hotel with Bri. Yuck!