Title: Target: Alex Cross
Author: James Patterson
Series: Alex Cross, #26
Published: November 2018, Little, Brown & Company
Format: Hardcover, 414 pages
Source: Personal copy
Summary:
TARGET: HEAD OF STATE
A
leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the
White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel
the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his
life to the public good.
TARGET: UNITED STATES CABINET
A
sniper’s bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross’s wife,
Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum:
solve the case, or lose the position for which she’s worked her entire
career. The Secret Service and the FBI deploy as well in the race to
find the shooter. Alex is tasked by the new President to take a personal
role with the FBI, leading an investigation unprecedented in scale and
scope.
TARGET: ALEX CROSS
Alex has a horrible
premonition: is the sniper’s strike only the beginning of a larger
attack on the nation? It isn’t long before his fears explode into life,
and the nation plunges into a full-blown Constitutional crisis. His
ingenuity, his training, and his capacity for battle are tested beyond
limits in the most far-reaching and urgently consequential case of his
life. As the rule of law is shattered by chaos, and Alex fights to
isolate a suspect, Alex’s loyalty may be the biggest danger of all.
***Short & Sweet Reviews are
short, quick reviews. These will mainly be used for series books where I
have already done full reviews on some of the earlier books or for
books that I feel will suffice with a quick review. These will not be
used for review requests or blog tours.
My thoughts: I have mixed feelings about this book. Overall, I’m still enjoying the series, but this particular installment was a bit much. I think in the first half of this book, there were too many people involved and it was hard to keep track. I did love seeing Alex back in his psychiatry practice and I’m definitely curious to see how that thread plays out as based on that ending, it’s not completely wrapped up.
As I’ve come to realize with this series, some of the books are great and some are so-so, and this one was so-so. It wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t great. I feel that sometimes putting too much into the book is a little bit overkill and that was definitely the feeling I got here.
Here’s hoping the next one is more to my liking.
Books in this series:
- Along Came a Spider 16. Cross Country
- Kiss the Girls 17. Cross Fire
- Jack and Jill 18. Kill Alex Cross
- Cat and Mouse 19. Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
- Pop Goes the Weasel 20. Alex Cross, Run
- Roses are Red 21. Cross My Heart
- Violets are Blue 22. Hope to Die
- Four Blind Mice 23. Cross Justice
- The Big Bad Wolf 24. Cross the Line
- London Bridges 24.4 Cross Kill
- Mary Mary 24.5 Detective Cross
- Cross 25. The People vs. Alex Cross
- Double Cross 26. Target: Alex Cross
- I, Alex Cross 27. Criss Cross
- Alex Cross’s Trial
