Cat & Mouse (Alex Cross, #4) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Aug 07, 2018 Nancy Brady rated it really liked it

Alex Cross's nemesis Gary Soneji is back in this fourth novel in the Alex Cross series, and it is up to Cross to capture him in this suspense-filled novel. Added to that, the FBI (and Thomas Pierce) is looking for the mysterious serial killer, Mr. Smith, and they want Alex's help in catching him before he kills again.

As Alex Cross and his family are attacked and left for dead, it is up to Thomas Pierce to both find the mysterious Mr. Smith and solve who was behind the attacks; however, there are ...more

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Dec 29, 2011 Anne (Booklady) Molinarolo rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller-suspense, thriller-mystery, good-fiction, summer-2013

4.5 Stars

I took the opportunity of a task in the Summer 2013 Seasonal Reading Challenge to revisit James Patterson. I chose an older novel and I'm glad that I did. Cat & Mouse reminded of just why I sought out Patterson's books. Jack & Jill, I believe was my introduction to him. The staccato style chapters that quickly moved the story-line and slightly elevates the suspense. An author, using nursery rhymes as titles? A black protagonist and a widower with two titles: Policeman and Psychologist? 4.5 Stars

I took the opportunity of a task in the Summer 2013 Seasonal Reading Challenge to revisit James Patterson. I chose an older novel and I'm glad that I did. Cat & Mouse reminded of just why I sought out Patterson's books. Jack & Jill, I believe was my introduction to him. The staccato style chapters that quickly moved the story-line and slightly elevates the suspense. An author, using nursery rhymes as titles? A black protagonist and a widower with two titles: Policeman and Psychologist? Wonderful!!!! I was hooked until he began to partner with everyone under the sun, rolling out formulaic plots that were God awful. James Patterson's name was on every other book released, so it seemed to me. But Cat & Mouse is pure vintage James Patterson and I loved it!

Gary Soneji (Along Came a Spider - haven't read, but will) is back with a vengeance. He is coming from the cellar as a VERY BAD BOY and wants revenge on everyone who sent him to prison, but mostly on Alex Cross. He knows this is last hurrah and wants to go out in grandeur as Charles Whitman did. The train tunnels are his cellars now and he is full of rage. The killing begins in D.C.'s Union Station. Soneji is looking using the gun bar, deciding who is to live and who will die on this day. Alex and John Sampson find the sniper's lair and wonder what Gary's plan is. Can they stop him before he kills again? Soneji promises to kill Cross, even if it is from the grave.

While the spider is spinning his horrific web, another serial killer is working across the European continent. His first few kills had been in America. This not so new killer has eluded Interpol and the FBI for 4 years. Cross's buddy, Kyle, wants the Doctor's help. The FBI profiler, Pierce, may have missed something on Mr. Smith. Cross declines as the "alien" Smith takes his next victim. The elusive Mr. Smith has left his chasers many clues, but they don't understand. The names of his victims are important.

After a horrific incident at the Cross home, the cases become intertwined. It is time to play Cat and Mouse. ...more

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