content: After the total fiasco of The Lake House, I was looking forward to getting back to Alex Cross. However, this book was a disappointment. I read it in about 3 hours, and I'll never again buy one of Patterson's hardbacks. I'll wait for the paperback (second-hand at that) and save my money!This book was not as bad as The Lake House, but it wasn't all that good. Short, choppy sentences; lots of italics; no depth to the characters. I found myself skipping whole paragraphs; you can just read the first and last sentence in a chapter and pretty much know what's going on.I like books that "take me away" -- this book was one that I just wanted to get away from!