| Title | : | Cat & Mouse (Alex Cross, #4) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 |
| Publication | : | First published November 5, 1997 |
Cat & Mouse (Alex Cross, #4) Reviews
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It was amazing to return to the corrupt and thrilling world where the policeman, psychologist and all around great family man, Alex Cross tries to solve insanely complex, homicide cases. Although often extremely violent and upsetting, dealing with the darkest sides of what crimes humans can commit, I love reading this series and the majority of the entries are highly addictive. Like the other books, this is a complete standalone novel although extra layers are added if they are visited consecutively in the correct order. If you are new to Patterson's series or like me, read my last entry 6-months ago and am now returning to the brutal environment of Washington D.C, hints and reminders are given regarding past events so the context and past actions are provided without ever dumbing it down too much for the die hard readers.
To quickly summarise, the tale is about 2-world class killers operating an ocean apart. One being, Gary Soneji, infamous murderer and kidnapper from Along Came A Spider, and the Jack The Ripper-esque Mr. Smith who journalists have referred to as an alien. Trains and cellars are frequently mentioned regarding Soneji's troubled youth and what is worse is that this genius psychopath, after escaping prison now has nothing to lose. As for Mr. Smith, we know nothing about him, he is only referred to in passing for the first half of the narrative.
As usual, readers follow Alex's 1st person perspective for the majority, however, other viewpoints such as those of trusted partner Detective John Sampson and the killer Gary Soneji are presented in the 3rd person. As the previous books, I like the use of this device and I think it works admirably well. At all points, the reader knows more than Alex and I find it intriguing to see how he deduces minute details, gets into the minds of a monster and then hopefully solves the crimes. In the 3rd quarter of the book, Alex is out of action for parts, so for the first time in the series, another character is entitled to first person privileges. The brilliant blonde pony-tailed flaunting FBI agent, Thomas Pierce. He is a great character with a mind that rivals Alex's although he is still emotionally distraught following the murder of his partner at the hands of Mr. Smith. It is really interesting flowing in the minds of these amazing individuals. I like to question what I would think or do in the same scenarios that they find themselves frequenting within. That is a large part of the fun for me. I wonder if a real detective would be able to predict the way the plot progressed, the numerous twists, and crazy revelations whilst reading this. It is an adrenaline pumping thrill ride of a book with turns and twists aplenty. One of the revelations, however; did seem a little bit too convenient, although not predictable, something about it doesn't quite fit right with me. I thought this revelation was to misguide the reader to then shock more when the further truth was revealed. I was over-thinking and it wasn't that complex. I don't think this book it is as unpredictable and intricate as some of Patterson's prior entries. I always seem to enjoy these books and generally race through them within a couple of days. If you haven't read an Alex Cross novel then you really need to do yourself a favour and start one. The action is on par with Die Hard. -
Why do I keep picking up Alex Cross novels when I am constantly dissapointed? Is it because I read Kiss the Girls when I was much younger and at that time found it enjoyable? Ah the blissful pleasures of ignorant youth. Maybe it is just because there happen to be so many in every airport bookstore that I just can't resist. This book was apparently thrown togeather with no regard for cohesive story line, no thought of how time passes, and no thought of how real people think and feel. Alex Cross who used to be kind of heroic is left looking silly and juvinile. Why does he keep putting his family and girlfrind in danger if he is so smart and such a good guy?
Ahh. No more James Patterson! -
I'm grateful to the Great American Read for enticing me to start reading the Alex Cross series. Cat and Mouse is the 4th book in the series, and I'm officially hooked. I like the characters, and the plots are suspenseful and engrossing.
Cross' nemesis, serial killer Gary Soneji, returns in Cat and Mouse. Soneji is bound and determined to kill Detective Alex Cross once and for all....but he's going to do it his way....the violent and crazy way. While Cross and his partner, John Sampson, are chasing after Soneji, another killer is playing games with the FBI. Mr. Smith is diabolical and extremely savage in his killings. He tortures people to death with the preciseness of a surgeon. The two cases come together with a violent clashing of killing styles, leaving both Cross and Sampson reeling.
This book has plenty of action, investigation and surprises. I kept thinking I had it figured out....only to have the plot take another twist, leaving me guessing again. Very enjoyable story!
This series does seem to have it out for any woman that Alex Cross shows interest in, however......that particular plot device is getting a bit old after 4 books. But, I like this series....and I'm willing to overlook a relatively small annoyance. My favorite character by far is Nana Mama. She's in her 80's and feisty, but she loves her family. And she gives some great advice. Cross' partner, John Sampson, is a great supporting character. I also enjoy Cross' kids -- Janie and Damon. They are wise and love their daddy. :)
I listened to the audio book version of Cat and Mouse. The particular audio book my library offered is narrated by Jeff Harding. His reading is ok....he reads at a nice pace and all that. But.....I found his voice annoying and his attempts at accents to be less than stellar. Why would a publisher hire a white actor to voice a black main character?? I much preferred the previous Alex Cross audio book I listened to, narrated by Ron Butler. Harding's attempts at the voices of Cross and Sampson were ridiculous. If the main character in a novel is black, then PLEASE hire a black actor to narrate the audio book!!! I was constantly pulled out of the story by the really bad attempts on Jeff Harding's part to sound black......just bad. I hope the next few audio books the library has are read by Ron Butler or similar actors. So much more enjoyable.
So, the book is excellent. This audio book could have been much better with a different narrator. On to the next book! The Alex Cross series has 25 books...with #26 coming in Nov 2018. I have a lot of reading and listening to do! :) -
Wow, I can't believe I used to like this book. All of the things I came to hate about the later books of the series are actually WORSE in this book. I have tried to keep spoilers to details to they won't ruin the plot. Also, fair warning, a lot of this review is a C&P of the first Cross book since a lot of my issues are the same.
1. The fact that Patterson spends half the book writing about how evil white people are drives me nuts. Keep in mind that Patterson was a 46 y.o., married, wealthy, while male from Palm Beach, FL writing about what it's like to be a 38 y.o. single father living in a crime-ridden poor neighborhood in DC. Really!? If it were only Patterson's apparent self-hatred, I would just feel pity for him. However, he managed to repeatedly glorify reverse-racism while fitting in more racist cliches than I ever would have thought possible. Check out how many times fried chicken and ribs shows up in the first three-four books. Also, Alex's obsession with white women. To say nothing of the language and the discussions of "the man," slavery and why the blues is the only good music ever created. Oh, and every white cop is an A$$
2. *SPOILER ALERT* Plot issues:
- Despite repeated conversations about jurisdictional arguments and police being territorial, Cross again jumps jurisdictions like they don't exist. There isn't even a lame "FBI" excuse this time.
- Why does every evil serial-killer criminal in the world have the hots for Cross? Granted he's a sexy black man (it's not racist 'cause the book says so!) but seriously, he hasn't caught THAT many bad guys at this point in the series and yet they ALL come looking for him?
- The FBI KNEW who Smith was and let him keep running around? Okay, if you want hard-and-fast proof, fine. But when you KNOW who he's chasing for his next victim, maybe put the guy under surveillance?
- The reasons for suspecting Mr Smith's identity are weak. Equally weak is the "discovery" as to how he choses his victims. And the ending. And basically the whole Mr. Smith plot. Had Patterson just stuck with "arch nemesis escapes from jail (again)" he might have had something - another Batman/Joker rip off anyways. Instead, he adds in a second, unnecessary killer and it drags on and on and on and...
3. Cross is revoltingly perfect. He balances family, women and job perfectly. He never gets angry with his kids/Nana or they with him. He is gorgeous and impervious to beatings, shootings, etc. (sorry, I already forget which violence took place in which book). In this book he is firebombed and never missed a beat or becomes less attractive.
He has NO issues what-so-ever except for the occasional "oh ya, and I miss my wife." Another reader said this, but I must take the time to agree - why does every characters have to have crappy relationships? Cross comes from a broken home himself and is a single dad due to a murdered wife. His love interest has a broken home and everyone around her died of cancer.
4. Cross' women: While this one manages to avoid death or maiming, this is apparently because she was attacked, her husband killed and she was held hostage in book #3. Which continues the "women exist only to cause Alex pain" series. Man, Alex Cross has it worse than Batman.
Also, this is 3/3 on the description of "Alex hasn't felt this close to a woman since his wife died. Except for Jezzie. And Kate. And the next 3 women he hooks up with. But congrats to this one for lasting more than one book!
5. I hate the writing style. The tendency to go from first person to third person (and MANY third persons at that) drive me tweaky. Pick one. I also don't like the short, abrupt chapters that appear to do no more than lengthen the book. Also, why does Patterson feels the need to RANDOMLY EMPHASIZE PASSAGES FOR NO GOOD REASON? I mean, is there really a need to confuse the reader by adding italics not only for thoughts, BUT FOR SUDDEN BURSTS OF WRITING THAT APPEAR TO MEAN NOTHING? This gets worse in the second and forth book (I skipped #3 this time around), but IT'S PRETTY ANNOYING HERE TOO. See what I means? Oh, and learn how to write a 4 year old's thoughts so that she doesn't sound older and wiser than Nana. Actually, she and Nana might as well be the same character except that the girl is there to be cute and Nana is there to be racist. 'Cause apparently being racist when your old is okay.
All in all, a book to be avoided - especially if you actually read and THINK about what you are reading. If you are the kind of person who listens to the beat of the song and has no idea what the words are, you might like it just fine. And if you are white and feel guilty about it, you will probably even find it "deep." -
This book is so hard to describe. I can only say it is like the hot girl who will talk to you, but she has horrible breath. You can't help but stick around, and hey, she's talking to you which is a bonus, but in the end, you just can't get around the fact that you know kissing her would be like licking a public toilet.
So what you might ask is so likeable about the book?
The story is awesome and Patterson can write a thriller like no one else. The story segments are great. It is the big picture that makes it fall apart. I actually commented on it in an earlier review, how I was afraid I could see the pattern emerging.
The moment Thomas Peirce was mentioned, and he was going to be a doctor, did anyone not know he was going end up being Mr. Smith? And if you did, do you start drinking before noon?
It was just so telegraphed and not a surprise at all. And that makes it very hard as a reader, because the line to line writing is so good, but it just sucks when you know how it is going to end thirty pages in. And at least for myself, it doesn’t help that I still couldn’t put it down.
Book 5 better not have someone in the FBI, a cop, or another person “on” the investigation doing the deed.
And for Christ’s sake, please move Alex, or put bars and your doors and windows. Your kids were almost murdered, Nana almost died, and you have now been assaulted twice in your house. Maybe if you are hunting crazy people, you should invest in some better security.
And that reminded me, after kids are attacked in their own home and beaten, I don’t think they snap back to normal so quickly.
Arghhh, I really liked reading it, but disliked it as a whole, even though I liked it. Damn you pretty girl with bad breath. -
How do you catch a monster? Wow! This was my first time reading a book from the Alex Cross series and I must say I’m smitten! Actually I’m smote! Perfectly titled “Cat & Mouse,” this book takes you on a ride! 5 stars
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I usually find
James Patterson a bit ho hum but there is nothing ho hum about
Cat and Mouse. Alex is, once again, faced with two psychopaths but this time round they are both masters of the macabre. The violence held within is pretty graphic so let your watch word be "take care".
The things the alpha villain, Mr Smith, does are particularly gross. Who'd want to be a medical examiner? Not me. There really is a lot going on so there is no time get bored let alone make a cup of coffee.
This time round author
James Patterson decides to show us that Alex Cross is not infallible after all. Alex is brutally beaten and shot in his own bedroom.
The pace is fast and unrelenting and the murders are, for the most part, pretty gross.
A few small criticism, Mr Smith is revealed just a bit too early for my liking. There is no humour. The end could have been better and the dialogue between Alex and his loving family and Alex's love interest is still really cringe worthy.
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Just like Jack and Jill, Cat and Mouse forces Alex to take on two murderers again. One killer is the Gary Soneji, who was introduced to us in the first book Along Came a Spider. He's dying from AIDS and wants to go out with a bang! Oh, and he most definitely wants his revenge on Alex Cross for putting him in jail.
Then there's Mr. Smith who is off kidnapping and killing people in France. He basically taunts the police because he calls them when there's a new victim and then later when he tells them where they can find the body. Seems like a fun challenge for Alex right?
Well, yes it was. This book was a pretty quick read due to the really short chapters - which I really loved because it just makes you consume the book so much quicker! Then off course Cat and Mouse definitely delivers some really good twists and turns. Alex sort of finds love (but I didn't really care about that part - I just wanted the murders solved and killers behind bars (or dead)).
I saw some stuff coming (like how Mr. Smith really was - and I was so freaking happy that I guessed right!) and other stuff I had no idea would happened. I'm so glad that I got the chance to read this book because I'm loving this series so far! I can't wait to dive into the next book, -
Cat & Mouse James Patterson, getting pretend murdered ah nope, I'm walking the other way, bit of a crumpled up crime story and right up my alley, spoilers ahead quit now, after psycho killer "Gary" stalks around while everyone is asleep inside Alex's family home, that was spooky, then a very realistic train station mass shooting, heck. Alex starts investigating this mass murder and linking it to a past convicted killer, but wait it's not entirely open shut the timings and distances don't match. For Alex things are hotter than Friday we have bosses wanting results, a killer who wants revenge and discover another killer who wants notoriety, both killers are crazy as hell, both are tracking Alex and his family and killing anyone that gets in their way, who is the mouse and who is the cat hmm. Round and round it goes its a difficult plot for sure, scenes in London, Paris, Delaware, Washington, Hospitals, Brooklyn, posh country homes, there's decapitated bodies, a big knife, big guns, making big holes, big chases, dead police, live police. But you know what? you know Alex gets his man in the end because he's cool and the killers, opposite of cool and totally jealous. In short a very twisted story, besides the back tracking, honestly it's a complicated mess, but the affair is definitely sexy, gripping, baffling, crazy, and hectic, amen.
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3.5*
I liked it but wasn’t as into as I was the previous three of the series. Still set up for a good continuous of the series. I liked the crime plots and I especially liked the twists in the Pierce case. The Cross crime plot was actually solved too easily in my opinion. There was no grand lead up to it so to speak and not too much to consider twists or turns. The characters are amusing to follow in this series. I have been told by so many that the Alex Cross series will become my favorite James Patterson co-authored series, but I’m still holding on to the Michael Bennett series as my favorite so far. We will see after some more Cross books though.
My quick and simple overall: quick and good read but it did take me way longer but that had to do with my dissertation edits responsibility over the book. -
Old and new villains with an exciting plot.
Thrilling.
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Would you be an assassin?
When is being the bad guy ever good? Is being an assassin a good or a bad thing? Do killers have different problems then regular people? Cat and mouse by James Patterson is a suspenseful, exciting action book that will blow your mind. Two people fight to the death, who will be the cat and who will be the mouse.
Gary Sonejis is an assassin in the United States and he was a kidnapper. Mr. Smith is a person without a first name, and he is also an assassin but in Europe that used to be a kidnapper. Until one day one of them gets a target with the other person on it so he has to kill that person. So they have to defend them self to determine who’s going to be on top.
I was amazed by the book Cat and mouse by its suspense of James Patterson. I recommend this book to people who love to be surprised and like unpredictable situations. I like this book because it was very entertaining and it took my breath away. I also like this book because it was suspenseful and it kept you at the edge of your seat. -
GAG!! Maybe 2.25 stars. I'm usually a huge Alex Cross fan, the first two books - shit scary. Number 3... meh. But this one?? Seriously?!
It basically read like two books - the first half with Soneji was a flop, I didn't find that necessary, yes it was creepy but pretty disappointing. And (ok, maybe I'm a bitch) but not one member of Alex Cross' family died?? Not even the Grandma?? Come On!!!
The romance between Cross and Christine?? Gag, seriously, gag. Please don't ever write any sex scenes again. Never. Again. Please. If I wanted to read a romance novel I would have picked one from a romance author.
Second half of the book was good. At 75% we went left field which was surprising but not necessarily bad (or good mind you).
My problem with reviewing this is that I am a James Patterson fan usually but this book... really, really disappointing. Think I'm turned off Alex Cross for while. Sorry =S -
eponymous sentence:
p241: This is cat and mouse.
cement:
p123: Our shoes softly scraped the cement.
p125: Here the cold cement floor was smooth.
That I-MURDERED-ISABELLA-CALAIS bit feels a little awkward in this otherwise visceral thriller. Too juvenile.
Funny thing: I've never seen Beemer (BMW) spelt like that before. -
I just finished reading one of the books from the Michael Bennett series and I would definitely say the Alex Cross series a lot more intense. I almost wasn't expecting the brutality like I forgot how well James Patterson speaks from the killer's perspective.
I definitely liked this one better than the last one and I look forward to continuing the series.
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And this is why I continue to read James Patterson's books - this one was excellent. Alex Cross is at his masterful best chasing and catching the the bad guys and in this case they are really, really bad! A twist at the end ensures I have to chase up and read the next book in the series very soon.
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Serial killer, Gary Soneji, is out of jail and looking for revenge on detective Alex Cross. He wants to kill Cross and his entire family. But, before doing so, he is leading up to it with other killings and taunting Cross. Meantime, Cross is attracted to his kids’ principal, but she is hesitant to date someone with his job.
I really liked this one. I remember the name Soneji, but don’t really remember details of him in the other books (this is 4th in the series), but it’s not necessary to remember anything about him to enjoy this one. If there was anything from the previous book(s) I needed to know, I was reminded of it. I liked the potential relationship between Alex and Christine. -
This book seemed to be over half way through. Alex Cross had caught the criminal he sought and the man, Gary Soneji was dead. So far not a 5 star rating. Then, out of nowhere, things changed immediately. There was terrible things happening to Cross and his family. Another murderer was in the background in the early part of the book, but no shows up to dominate the rest of the book, and so does another FBI investigator. Twists come up quickly and the search is on again.
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Oh my-The layers-plot, character development, plot, “who is the cat”, and “who is the mouse”? But our hero is broken to find the answers....watch out, this book will not let you STOP reading!
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Alex Cross is back-as is a furious and self-destructive Gary Soneji. Out of jail and kicking the bucket from the AIDS infection he contracted there, he will get exact retribution on Cross before he bites the dust. Moreover, we are acquainted with another match of adversaries whose ways cross that of Alex and Soneji. Thomas Augustine Pierce has been pursuing his evil spirit, Mr. Smith, since the savage murder of his fiancee. Mr. Smith is an interesting creature, with activities toward his casualties so crazy so unfathomable that he is considered as "not of the earth." Pierce, referred to in the business as St. Augustine due to his reputation for getting executioners and his precious status to the FBI and Interpol, may even be superior to anything Cross.When things warm up and Alex is in a close passing trance state taking after an assault in his own particular home, Pierce goes to Washington to help with the examination. In any case, similarly as he starts to sort out the riddle of how Gary Soneji could have mortally injured Cross after he was accepted to be dead, he is summoned to Paris with a postcard from Mr. Smith welcoming him to an exceptionally unique executing.
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"Death is the nature's way of saying 'howdy'" - Nana
Gary Soneji is on the loose again and he is out for a payback to Alex Cross. In James Patterson's first book of Alex Cross, this psychopath has kidnapped to kids. This time, Gary Soneji is on the game killing random strangers, making stations as his human shooting range. Killing in a methodical manner.
On the other hand, Thomas Agustine, with his uncanny ability to catch killers, has been chasing the man who brutally his fiancee, Mr. Smith.
Meanwhile, Alex Cross was in ground state when an unknown person attacked him in his house.
The twist of the story takes turn when it was found out that it was Thomas Pierce who butchered her girlfriend and struck her heart by piercing him because she was cheating on him all along. She never loved him.
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I'm not a thriller reader, so for the first few chapters I was like, "I don't know if I can deal with the style here." It's so compressed. I felt like the writer was going, "Come on, come on, you're too slow." Which, trust me, is not a reaction I normally have with the pace of a book. I felt lost. But a few chapters later - I was into the rhythm of it, and the action of it snapped into place. I could have used more suspense - but it felt like events that I should worry about were there and gone almost before I could grasp that they were flying by. I'll keep reading JP and see if I can keep up :)
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Seemingly with nothing to lose after escaping from prison the psychotic serial killer Gary Soneji wrecks havoc across Eastern America, proclaiming that his final target will be Alex Cross and his family. Meanwhile the FBI is pleading with Alex Cross to assist them in the identification and capture of the global serial killer 'Mr Smith'. Two serial killers for the price of one, for Alex, in this somewhat grittier and harder hitting page turner from the best selling series. 6 out of 12.
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i stayed up all night reading. the only thing that stopped me from finishing it was when i looked out the window the sun was already up and i still have a 8 am class to attend, so i figured i got to catch at least an hour's sleep. really exciting, i couldn't put it down. gary soneji is simply sick... yet strangely fascinating.
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Alex Cross is again on the trail of Gary Soneji. There is also a killer in England that the FBI is chasing and want Cross to help solve. The book kept me turning pages but it seemed the stories were totally unrelated, and I think they were. It was two books in one, but each of the killers wanted Alex to outsmart them. A bit of a change from his previous books.
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Call me crazy but this is my favorite Alex Cross book thus far. This is the fourth in the series. I've already read the first three (all of which I enjoyed) but there was something about this one that just grabbed me right from the beginning.
I just love how Patterson weaves a tale. And, as much as I joke with my friends about his short chapters, I find them refreshing after some of the heavier things I've read this past summer. No more saying to myself, "I'll read one more chapter before I go to bed." With a Patterson book, you can safely say, "I'll read twenty more chapters" before putting the book down.
And, I can't help but smile every time Patterson mentions other authors' books. He does it on numerous occasions in Cat and Mouse and I always find myself checking out the books he's mentioned.
This installment finds Alex Cross, once again, coming face to face with ... Gary Soneji. Those of you who have already read the first book in this series, Along Came A Spider, will recognize Soneji as the teacher turned kidnapper who wanted to commit the "crime of the century." Now he has escaped from prison and has come back to seek revenge on the man who put him there....Alex Cross.
Across the ocean on the continent of Europe, another madman is killing people by performing autopsies on them while they're still alive. The FBI is all over this killer, dubbed "Mr. Smith", and has assigned their young, crack shot, pony-tailed agent, Thomas Pierce, to head up this investigation. Circumstances will bring him back to the U.S. to help with the Soneji investigation.
Of course, it will be up to our hero, Alex Cross, to save the day. Since he's not only a homicide detective, but one with a Ph.D. in psychology, he's very adept at getting into someone's mind. This is the best part of this series -- watching how Alex figures out what the murderer's next step will be.
For Alex Cross fans, one of the highlights of this book will be the love match between him and Christine, the principal of Damon and Jannie's (Alex' kids) school. Readers of this series will remember Christine as a character in Jack and Jill (the third book in this series). Sadly, her husband was murdered in that one. Could the timing be right for these two characters? One can only hope. I'm sure I'll find out when I read the next book in this series -
Since the new ALEX CROSS movie just came out in my area, I decided to pick up CAT & MOUSE and make it an Alex Cross week all the way around. On the bright side, the movie was pretty good--much better than most critics and die-hard Patterson fans are giving it credit for. On the other hand, CAT & MOUSE was just awful. The writing was inept ("She looked slightly beyond great."), and the story was a mess. In this novel, Patterson writes in the first-person for three different characters and alternates among them. Then, for some chapters, he switches to a third-person viewpoint, even though we're still following a character he usually writes about in the first-person. Stylistically, that's just ugly and lazy, and I can't think of any other writers who do that. Then there's the fact that this is an Alex Cross novel where Alex Cross is M.I.A. for a third of the story, making the novel feel like one of those TV episodes where the main actor took a vacation and the show's writers were forced to work around it by propping up secondary characters as leads. Then there's the stupid twist at the end--a twist that only works because Patterson doesn't really let us inside the characters' heads, even though he's writing about them in first-person. In my opinion, that's cheating. And worst of all, Alex Cross accomplishes virtually nothing during the course of the story--and certainly not in the book's second half, when he goes after serial killer #2. I had thought CAT & MOUSE would be fun because it features a rematch between Cross and the bad guy from ALONG CAME A SPIDER, the best book I've read in the Cross series. But even that part of the story was lame... I'd recommend just skipping this and seeing the ALEX CROSS movie instead.
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I need to take a break from the Alex Cross series. This one was especially frustrating and also predictable. I complain about similar things with every book in this series. This one was especially egregious. I get that Patterson is trying to mislead the reader and have the twists come as a shock and make the story even better. But, you can't do this while having the story and character act differently than they normally would, especially when reading from that person's point of view. Their very thoughts contradicted themselves later in the book, just to provide the twist. Even with this, it was predictable. Towards the end, I was rooting against Cross, which can't be a good reflection of the story and writing.
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The first half of the book deserves a 4 star rating. The second half of the book had an interesting twist but it was too unbelievable, so it gets only a 3 star rating. It should be noted that several guest characters in this book were also guest characters in a previous book in the Alex Cross series titled Along Came a Spider. It would be best to read Along Came a Spider before reading Cat and Mouse.
