The most
dangerous thing in Merry Christmas Alex
Cross, the latest installment in the long running series of popular whodunit’s from mega-best-
selling author James Patterson, is not a psycho killer, pistol packing punk or
even an Islamic terrorist hell bent on destruction. Nope, it turns out the most
dangerous item in the story is the hero’s telephone!
It’s a showy
Christmas Eve in Washington, DC when what has to be the most dreaded sound in
the Cross family home front, the ringing of the phone calls the master
detective/psychologist off on another adventure to face down evil.
While
bestselling authors have often been unable to resist the urge to use the
Christmas holiday as the backdrop of their story, this one may leave long time Patterson
fans more than a little cold. While not truly a collection of short stories or
novellas strung together around the Cross family holiday, the book is made up
of at least three storylines that don’t quite hang together. Disjointed is the
best word I can come up with to describe the effort.
At times it
feels like the ridiculously prolific Patterson had a few storylines hanging
around the “it’s a good story, but I can’t quite make a book out of it file”
that he decide to pull together with a little Christmas glue. After the phone
rings for the third time, you start to wonder if the DC police can’t do
anything without Alex Cross.
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