The Alex Cross series is one of my favorites, and I’m sure you’ll read it without too much of a review from me. I thought the plot was a bit outrageous when a “high level white house” person is implicated in a series of murders of high-prices prostitutes (would the story have been as compelling if they were two-bit, acned, deformed and specially-challenged has been hookers who were coming out of retirement?) who have been working in an exclusive club that caters to the power mongers in D.C. Cross is drawn into the case when his estranged niece turns up as one of the murdered women, and it is through his investigation of that murder that the connection to the ritzy brothel and the white house gets uncovered. Still, Patterson does a good job disguising the identity of the culprit until the very end. Patterson mixes in a good subplot about the near death experiences due to old age of Nana, the woman who raised Cross and now lives in his house and is helping to raise his children. So, Cross is torn between pursuing the case, being at the hospital for his Nana, taking care of his kids, and developing his relationship with his new woman, Bree. It may be an airplane book, but it is a good one.
West Coast Don
the set up sounds suspiciously like the old Quorum Club during the Kennedy years. There really was such a place...you can look it up. Kennedy was rumored to have a relationship with the main hostess (among others). Bobby Baker (aid to LBJ) ran the place.
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