Mike Bennett is a NYC detective, a widower, who has been left with the 10 kids that he and his wife adopted. He seems like he runs a happy and healthy household, which happens to be Catholic. There is a Catholic subplot to this based on some Biblical writings about Ash Wednesday. But, there is a new murderer on the scene, an old radical leftist from the 70s who sold out, and is now unhappy about the fact that he has become wealthy and influential, hardly living up to the ideals of his youth. He begins by murdering a couple kids from the wealthiest families in NYC who attend the same affluent private high school that he attended. With the first kidnapping-murder, the FBI gets called in to help, and the beautiful FBI agent, Emily Parker, provides Mike with a love interest. Of course, there is some jealousy over Mike with the nanny, and that provide some comic tension through the story. The name of the bad guy is not revealed until far into the story, so I’m not going to tell you who it is. The climactic scene takes place at the NYSE trading floor where the bad guy has enough explosives to blow the place up, along with a couple more rich kids. This was a good story and a fast read. Not great literature, but very entertaining – a good airplane book and one that nephew Boedeker might consider taking with him on the place to Scotland for the British Open. I will occasionally continue to read James Patterson
West Coast Don
No comments:
Post a Comment