The Big Bad Wolf: A
Novel
by James Patterson (Author)
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- Hardcover: 400 pages ;
Dimensions (in inches): 1.27 x 9.48 x 6.40
- Publisher: Little Brown &
Company; 1st edition (November 17, 2003)
- ISBN: 0316602906
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Book Description
Alex Cross'
family is in terrible danger--at the same time that his new
job with the FBI brings him the scariest case of his career. A
team of kidnappers has been snatching successful, upstanding
men and women right before their families' eyes--possibly to
sell them into slavery.
Alex's knowledge of the D.C. streets,
together with his unique insights into criminal psychology,
make this mind-bending case one that only he can solve--if he
can just get his colleagues to set aside their staid and
outdated methods. With unexpected twists and whiplash
surprises, this is another brilliantly irresistible novel from
America's bestselling suspense writer.
A man and a woman abduct former
Atlanta reporter Elizabeth Connolly from her home. The victim
is the ninth in two years kidnapped by this team, who do
little to hide the crime. Instead, the brazen duo takes the
victim in public places with their horrified families as
witnesses. Several homicides have been associated with this
deadly team. The FBI believes that this notorious pair works
for the Wolf of the Red Mafiya, Pasha Sorokin who sells the
kidnapped people on a white slave commodity market.
No longer with the Metro DC police force,
the FBI assigns trainee Dr. Alex Cross to investigate the
snatchings because the brass believe his unique approach to
criminology is needed to break the case. Alex begins making the
round picking up tips from his myriad of DC sources. The
abductions and collateral murders continue as Alex gets closer
to catching the felons, but soon a tip hits home that his family
is now a target.
THE BIG BAD WOLF is a well written
exciting action packed police procedural that hooks the audience
from the moment that Elizabeth is snatched in Buckhead's Phipps
Plaza as she was already purchased by a client. Bringing student
Alex to run the case in spite of his record with DC Metro seems
hard to accept especially with the hard nosed agents basically
bowing to his greater wisdom. Still once that stark leap is
made, fans will enjoy Alex Cross, FBI Agent in Training battling
the Wolf and his pack.
Harriet Klausner
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