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  <title><![CDATA[Alex Cross's Trial (Alex Cross, #15)]]></title>
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  <default_description>The year is 1906, and &lt;ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;ST1:PLACE w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;America&lt;/ST1:PLACE&gt;&lt;/ST1:COUNTRY-REGION&gt; is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in &lt;ST1:PLACE w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;ST1:CITY w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Washington&lt;/ST1:CITY&gt;&lt;ST1:STATE w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;D.C.&lt;/ST1:STATE&gt;&lt;/ST1:PLACE&gt;, Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin.  When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in his home town in &lt;ST1:PLACE w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;ST1:STATE w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Mississippi&lt;/ST1:STATE&gt;&lt;/ST1:PLACE&gt;, he cannot refuse. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The details of Ben's harrowing story--and his experiences with a remarkable man named Abraham Cross--were passed from generation to generation, until they were finally recounted to Alex Cross by his grandmother, Nana Mama. From the first time hear heard the story, Alex was unable to forget the unimaginable events Ben witnessed in Eudora and pledged to tell it to the world. &lt;i&gt;Alex Cross's Trial &lt;/i&gt;is unlike any story Patterson has ever told, but offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Dilallo]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[James Patterson]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Hans]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 21 19:39:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This review of the book <em>Alex Cross's Trial</em>, by James Patterson &amp; Richard Dilallo, is by Hans W. &amp; Lindsay.  <br/><br/>With all due respect to Mr. Dilallo, I decided that since James &quot;paid-by-the-chapter&quot; Patterson no longer needs to be the primary author of the Alex Cross books, I no lon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67843912">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75098752">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 19 23:31:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 19 23:33:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off...the books title is a misnomer...especially to those of us who are addicted to the Alex Cross persona!  After the first few pages...he is no longer mentioned as we travel back in time to 1906 to Eudora, Mississippi where Abraham Cross and his daughter Moody live.  Abraham is great uncle t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75098752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71890771">
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    <name><![CDATA[Aaron]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 20 12:06:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 20 12:06:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know that this is being haled as another edition in Alex Cross series, but I can't help but feel they slapped a two-page introduction at the beginning and changed a couple of character names to take an interesting by an obscure author and shoot the sales up because of ties to Patterson. It is a ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71890771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76928018">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 06 10:56:45 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 08 03:28:45 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's 1906 and Ben Corbett is on a mission to his old home town, Eudora, Mississippi, for his old army commander, the President, Teddy Roosevelt. There are reports of lynchings of blacks with authority's tacit permission. The Klan, outlawed forty years ago, was reportedly operating. <br/><br/>Ben, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76928018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73889410">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jill]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 08 13:34:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 08 13:46:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I needed a little light-hearted break from a couple of intense books I've been reading, and what better than a James Patterson/Alex Cross, right?  WRONG!!!  It was a good read and kept me up until after 3 a.m., but a light-hearted break it was NOT!  Actually, it was a very disturbing book, certainly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73889410">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69827351">
    <user id="2401232">
    <name><![CDATA[Bob]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 02 12:11:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 04 18:15:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, first off it you are expecting another Alex Cross suspense novel you will be disappointed, because this one isn't.  It starts off by telling you that the Cross family has a history of keeping their history alive with oral stories passed down from generation to generation. It the moves into one s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69827351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71679712">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[History lovers, anyone who likes mystery; Patterson fans.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 18 11:26:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 18 12:22:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set primarily in rural Mississippi in 1906, Alex Cross relates a story involving his cousin, Moody; his Grandmother Nana Mama's uncle, Abraham Cross; and a D.C. attorney looking into hate crimes for President Theodore Roosevelt.<br/><br/>Full of violent characters in an extremely violent time, Abr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71679712">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68868827">
    <user id="959541">
    <name><![CDATA[Lindsay]]></name>
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 25 15:07:15 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 29 05:25:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm sorry, but this is NOT the book that &quot;Alex Cross&quot; would write.  I find it hard to believe that he would focus all his energy on Ben and his happiness at the end of the book and give very little in the way of character development and concern about his own family.  There's NO way that M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68868827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76214381">
    <user id="997813">
    <name><![CDATA[Sheila]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Olathe, KS]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 30 10:15:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 30 10:25:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even though the title use the Alex Cross character name, this story has absolutely nothing to do with the Alex Cross book series.  The only &quot;link&quot; to Alex Cross is the first 2 or 3 pages of the book when Alex is 'talking' and explaining that his great grandfather is a character in this sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76214381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72490574">
    <user id="1204085">
    <name><![CDATA[Marie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cranberry Twp, PA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 25 15:44:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 25 16:06:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another disappointment from Patterson. Although this story starts out as a compelling, though heartwrenching read,the ending once again is slapped together in a rushed and highly implausible finale. The main character gets on a high horse, crusades all around town stirring up the citizens, who have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72490574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76691503">
    <user id="1478908">
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 04 08:22:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 09 15:53:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read many, many of James Patterson's books -- and have enjoyed every one of them.  However, this book is by far the best book that he has written, and should be read by even those who are not familiar with his books and characters.  <br/><br/>It is a different type of book altogether, and i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76691503">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A young white lawyer, who specializes in helping people who cannot help themselves, is requested by President Theodore Roosevelt, to travel to his hometown of Eudora, MS. His father a presiding judge of the that area, does not welcome his son home. But he has been sent there on a special mission. He...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72976933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72272681">
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ben Corbett, a Caucasian lawyer in Washington is sent down to his hometown in Mississippi by President Roosevelt to investigate a series of lynchings by the KKK.  In the midst of his investigation, Corbett finds himself in the middle of &quot;the trial of the century&quot; defending an African Ameri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72272681">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72138245">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent read.  I was traveling for the weekend with my nine year old daughter. Our plans were ruined by the flu.  Stuck in a hotel room for the weekend, we both decided to read to one another from our respective books.  She fell asleeep reading to me and I completed THIS book in one night.<br/>I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72138245">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65223546">
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    <name><![CDATA[Crystal]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 27 21:34:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 02 08:59:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I knew I wanted to read this because I read all James Patterson books and especially his Alex Cross series. I honestly didn't know if I would like it or not. I am so glad I picked this up because I really enjoyed reading this book.<br/><br/>Just like his Alex Cross novels, this is fast paced, it j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65223546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The subject matter in this book was not what I had expected.  I love this great country of ours, but our history has had some bad marks against it...<br/><br/>This book deals with racism and what it was like to be a person of color or any other nationality in the South other than &quot;the good ol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75405929">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unusual story about the an ancestor of Alex Cross, a character who is in many of James Paterson's novels. This is set in Mississippi in the early 1900's with blacks trying to live among regular lynchings.The story involves a small town, Eudora, where lynchings are a quiet but persistent activity. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70369194">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably the best James Patterson I've read in quite some time.  This is supposedly a novel written by the character Alex Cross about one of his relatives during the late 1800's.  Teddy Roosevelt sends a young man, a lawyer who could be considered a civil rights attorney by today's standards...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74930133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my opinion, the title of the book doesn't totally match the story.  In Alex Cross's trial, I guess I expected to read more about Alex Cross's family and his relationship to the people the Cross family, it was never explained in detail...unless I missed something.  <br/><br/>The book started off...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71291094">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quote on front of book &quot;If there really were human superheroes, Alex Cross would be at the head of the class.&quot; New York Times. Don't disagree with this statement at all, however, this book is not about Alex Cross, but an ancestor. Was totally disappointed in this book. I'm almost at a poin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76973827">more...</a>]]></body>
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