If the last Alex Cross book failed to meet some of my
expectations, this one met all of them plus some.
It seems that the more messed up the bad guys are, the
better the book turns out to be.
One of the things I liked most about this one was that you
are kept guessing about who the bad guys are, and one of them comes as a huge
surprise.
Alex is making his transition from the Washington PD to the
FBI. Of course, this does not come without some hardship. Alex is having a
difficult time adjusting to how the FBI runs things and how they coordinate
takedowns.
He decides he has to take charge at some times, but he is
still new, so they don’t always listen to him.
As if the transition was not stressful enough, Christine
returns and threatens to take away his son.
The Wolf runs a large ring of selling Americans for money.
He employs kidnappers to take them and give them to the people who “order”
them.
The thing is… no one knows who the Wolf is. He is a mystery
man from Russia who is also in the Red Mafiya.
The Wolf has some connection to the FBI. I was waiting and
waiting for this to be explained in this book, but it never was. The Wolf story
line was not resolved either though, so I expect more to come out of it in the
next book.
Also, just as I was praising the last book for showing us
more John Sampson, this one hardly had him it in at all. You gain some, you
lose some I suppose. There are still a lot of books in this series that I have
to catch up on, so there is bound to be more about John later.
4.5/5 stars. More Sampson please!
