The Big Bad Wolf - James Patterson

James Patterson is responsible for many wonderful tales, both in his Alex Cross series and in his other novels. Though this book is utterly readable and absorbing, with its short chapters (you think - I'll just read one more - and before you know it you've finished the whole thing,) and quick twists in plot, I didn't feel that this was his best work. This is mostly due to the ending. Whether you've read any of Patterson's Alex Cross novels before doesn't matter; these are easy to get into, any background required is summarised in a way that enlightens the novice without boring the expert. Essentially, the biggest difference in this novel is that Alex has been ...  Read the complete review

Big Bad Wolf is one of James Patterson's novels featuring his favoured character, Alex Cross, formerly a homicide detective, but now working with the FBI. Patterson has developed this character over a number of books, and as such the bulk of the characterisation has already been done, but this book is the first with Cross as an FBI agent, marking the start of something new, and it is actually a lot easier to read this without having read previous books than some of the others can be. Cross, in his first real outing working with the FBI, has to deal with the selling of beautiful women as slaves across the country. Cross and his new colleagues at the FBI are ...  Read the complete review

?Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society? Alex Cross has finally succumbed to pressure and joined the FBI from the Washington police department, unfortunately for him he is set to hit the ground running when news of a disturbing new crime is unearthed. Throughout the length and breadth of America normal white men and woman are being kidnapped, with the disturbing realisation that they are being taken to order for members of an elite internet web group. The leader and mastermind of this enterprise is known only as the wolf, a ruthless former member of Russia?s red mafia who will do whatever it takes to become the undisputed ...  Read the complete review