James Patterson Bookshots: Cross Kill
I was at CVS the other day, waiting for a prescription to be filled. While waiting, I took a look at their pathetic reading section. This novella caught my attention. Patterson has been doing the bookshots for several months now, but I haven't bothered with them until now. I was an avid reader of Patterson until about two years ago. This was the first of his that I have read in ages.
I was drawn to this bookshot because it was about Alex Cross, my favorite Patterson character. It also revisits some of Patterson's earlier Cross books.
In this novella, Alex and his best friend and partner, John Sampson, are working at a soup kitchen that Alex's NanaMama endowed with some lottery winnings. While there, shots are fired. When Cross and Sampson go to investigate, Cross is shot in the chest and Sampson in the head by a man that looks like Gary Soneji, an earlier criminal that Cross saw die.
Cross was wearing a bulletproof vest which saved his life. Sampson wasn't so lucky, and ended up in the ICU, in a medically induced coma. Cross is working to find out who shot Sampson, as Soneji has been dead ten years. This is really messing with Cross.
Cross finds out there are several Soneji fans who'd like to see him dead, but Cross is able to solve the case, like only he can.
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