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Title: What a hack....
Review: I've read some of the real Alex Cross books on long plane trips and liked them. They weren't Tolstoy, but were a good read. This shallow attempt at a book makes me want to get into writing. The formula seems to be: find a famous author who doesn't want to write anymore, write a lousy book, pay the famous author to puts his name in front and then, voilà: a best seller. I don't know what Micheal Ledwidge's (the real author) percentage is, but James Patterson must be making a killing on this sausage factory approach to literature. The book is not completely unreadable: I did manage to finish it. However, I had to skip over large portions in order to survive to the end. It had it all: two-dimensional characters, stifling political correctness, unbelievable plot twists, sadistic violence for no reason, etc.Stay away from any book that has James Patterson's name along with another author.
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