As Sampson reflects in a pardonable understatement, \u201cBad things have happened to the Cross family before.\u201d So what\u2019s left to suffer now that Sampson has rescued Cross from a near-fatal bullet wound? Glad you asked. When his son Damon\u2019s academic advisor phones from Chapel Hill to report that nobody\u2019s seen Damon for three days, Cross instantly arranges to fly to North Carolina with his wife, investigator Bree Stone. But she\u2019s called back to Washington almost immediately to work on a series of bombings that\u2019s already prevented Sampson from joining Cross in the search for his son. Both investigations are thoroughly routine\u2014that is, spiked with menace and violence and cast with characters you wouldn\u2019t look at twice in a police lineup\u2014but Patterson\u2019s fondness for bite-sized chapters suits the structure of Cross\u2019 latest adventure to a T, since there\u2019s an opportunity for a cliffhanger of greater or lesser proportions every five pages or so, when the collaborating authors cut away to the other story. Although many of the resulting jolts come across as synthetic, some are rooted in current events. The prime suspect in the bombings is an ex\u2013Special Forces officer who served as an explosives expert in Afghanistan, and the kidnapping of Damon is racially motivated. There\u2019s no escaping today\u2019s headlines, not even if you\u2019re riding along with Alex Cross.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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