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Title: Excellent book despite...
Review: This was my first Alex Cross book, and overall it was very good, and would read another. The villian in the novel is intelligent, cunning, and very dangerous, and so the hero in return must also be intelligent, and insightful. Patterson succeeded in keeping me on the edge of my seat through out much of the book, and I found most of his twists, and turns very entertaining. Sadly what I did not find entertaining, intelligent, or even fresh was the routine use of the "Black vs White" mentality used by the star of the book Alex Cross. I found the use of this really insulting, and it turned me off almost to the point of putting the book down. I could not understand why its inclusion made this a better book, or a better character. I certainly hope that in the future Alex cross books, that Patterson was comfortable with himself as a writer that he no longer had to include such petty plot devices.
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