Double Cross - James Patterson

After reading "Cross", the Alex Cross installment right before this one, I knew I had to read the current best seller.  Luckily for me a, friend had it in hardback and I am one week into it and it is a humdinger of a story.

I have read several of the Alex Cross installments by James Patterson and they are some real page-turners to say the least.  All of the chapters are short, to the point and each one forces you to keep reading until the book is finished.  I think Mr. Patterson is so popular these days because people are fascinated with forensics, murder, death and meyhem and that's all there is to it.  With show's like the L&O and CSI franchises which everybody is hooked on, the only logical step is to also be hooked on James Pattersons, Alex Cross character - if for no other reason, because he's a nice mix of all the TV shows when you get tired of watching TV and want to enjoy a real good book sometimes.

Morgan Freeman played Alex Cross in one or two of the film versions of several books and as far as I'm concerned, Morgan Freeman is Alex Cross.  He is all that I see in my minds eye while reading an Alex Cross novel.

Anyway, "Double Cross" has psychos and then some more psychos and it's all kind of scary because you'd like to think these kind of people don't exist, but we all know they are out there.   There's the DCAK, killing people in the most unusual way -  with hundreds of witnesses - at a play, at a huge football game, on the freeway, from a high-rise...you get the idea.

The killers are taunting Cross because they each have a score to settle with him.   Oh yes, there are at least two killers involved and they are "psycho-pathetic" and beyond redemption. 

I'm sure I'll finish this one sometime this week.  Even while reading fast, I'll be reading slow because I'll hate for the story to end.