I, Alex Cross by James Patterson

This is another exciting novel is in his usual style -- flamboyant, compelling and dramatic if not entirely credible or tightly structured.Someone is operating an extremely expensive sex club outside Washington D.C. to cater to the high class tastes of the wealthy and powerful. Indulge your fantasies with beautiful young ladies and lads -- then get blackmailed.All except the most powerful one, Zeus.The entire novel revolves around the question of who is Zeus in real life, and it's not surprising when we learn he's extremely highly placed.The pace is so fast and furious, yet clouded with the emotional confusion of worrying about whether Mama Nana, Cross's elderly grandmother, will survive her heart problems. Therefore, you don't stop to wonder why these politicians and their friends would go all the way to a club in Northern Virginia when they can get escorts and groupies for a lot less money and trouble, not to mention risk.And the blackmailing... I just can't believe all the
se powerful people would allow this to go on. I think that after the first blackmail attempt, the club owner would find he had no more customers.And if politicians find it so easy to find rogue federal agents to do their dirty work (as Zeus does), then surely the club owner would have already been killed.And I can't believe that the club owner would not have already figured out what Zeus is doing is in own private little area. I can't believe that he would have allowed Zeus to continue doing it, because it put him at a lot more legal risk than the prostitution angle. Zeus was in no position to force him.And what did Zeus do before the club opened up? Surely he didn't just start to have this kind of compulsive behavior. And how and where did he find the rogue agents?And how did they continue operating even after the club was busted? They followed one woman down to Trinidad and killed her in her family home without the neighbors knowing.How as that possible? Does Patterson not
realize that slum houses in places like Trinidad are small with thin walls? People kill each other, but not secretly. And how would the agents not escape detection as they were not native Trinidadians? Patterson leaves out such details of how federal agents, mostly like white (but even if black, not native Trinidadians) could have gone into Trinidad slums, killed a woman and escaped undetected by the local people.To me, that's always the problem with Patterson novels. They're fast, exciting compelling reads with a lot of emotional strength and drama...But don't ask too many questions.

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