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| View Larger Image | Roses Are Red
by James Patterson
5 Spot
| | List Price: | $5.99 | | Price: | $4.79 | | You Save: | $1.20 (20%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 2657 | | Release Date: | August 23, 2002 | | Studio: | 5 Spot |
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Product Description
This powerful new Alex Cross thriller from #1 bestseller James Patterson introduces his most vicious killer yet. He's a maniac who calls himself the Mastermind. He orchestrates a series of bank robberies notable for their precise demands--and their explosive violence when the demands are not met exactly. A particular kind of criminal intelligence is at work, one that Cross recognizes immediately. But the Mastermind also has a watchful eye on the D.C. detective. And he makes it his personal goal to take savage revenge on Cross, his entire team, and the beautiful FBI agent he loves. |
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Roses Are Red, James Patterson's sixth Alex Cross thriller, opens with the District of Columbia detective attempting to mend his nearly unraveled family. The year-long kidnapping of one's intended (1999's Pop Goes the Weasel) will do that to a relationship. Christine, the kidnappee, is amenable with one reasonable condition: that her family's horizon remain uncluttered by homicidal maniacs. How unfortunate, then, that the joyous christening of their newborn son is rudely interrupted by the FBI bearing news of several heinous murders requiring the attention of detective (and doctor of psychology) Cross. "Three-year-old boy, the father, a nanny," Kyle said one more time before he left the party. He was about to go through the door in the sun porch when he turned to me and said, "You're the right person for this. They murdered a family, Alex." As soon as Kyle was gone, I went looking for Christine. My heart sank. She had taken Alex and left without saying good-bye, without a single word. Which leaves Cross free to hunt the Mastermind, the barbarous brains behind a widening series of bank robberies in which employees or their family members are held hostage and, when instructions aren't followed to the finest iota, slaughtered. Given the cases' glaring and unfathomable inhumanity, Cross's long- time DCPD partner (the wonderful giant, John Sampson) gives way to the warm, attractive, and fiercely intelligent FBI Agent Betsey Cavalierre. The longer and harder Cross and Cavalierre remain on his trail, the bolder and more brutal--and shiveringly close to home--the Mastermind's strikes become. And, thanks mostly to lightning-short paragraphs and a point of view that rappels from the first-person Cross to the third-person Mastermind, the tale progresses at hot-trot speed to a bona fide doozy of a denouement. It'll be over before you know it, so sit back, hold your breath, and enjoy the show. And stay tuned for the next one. --Michael Hudson |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 452 reviews)
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Roses are Red 
James Patterson is one of my favorite reads. His Alex Cross series is sensational. I purchaced 3 different books on this series from you and love everyone.
June 20, 2008 | |
triller 
I could not put the down, I was so eager to know what happen next
June 16, 2008 | |
Highly Recommended!
This was an excellent read....I was SHOCKED BEYOND BELIEF at the end when I found out who the Mastermind is....I am so afraid for Alex....Now I am reading Violets are Blue just to find out if Alex catches the Mastermind....I can not way. The Alex Cross series is great....Oh my, what will Cross do when he finds out who the master mind is.....Wow! S.L. Chessor author of My Tongue Fell Out & Poodlums Boogeymen and Booglers.
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May 28, 2008 | |
Robberies and Homicide
Alex finds himself totally involved with his work and he is having some big issues with this personal life. He has a bank robber that is getting away with murder and the money. The villain is a control freak. He has plans for one last perfect crime of his career. There are many surprises in the story. Patterson leaves some problems to be answered in some future book. By Ruth Thompson author of "The Bluegrass Dream" and "Natchez above the River"
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May 15, 2008 | |
synopsis, not a novel 
This book reads like a synopsis or a book proposal. It's the Cliff Notes version. I appreciate a brisk pace, and Mr. Patterson certainly holds my attention, but there is almost no plot or character development, and the ending is a total cheat. There is no build-up to the big revelation at the end- it's just tacked-on, a big let-down. This is a good idea for a novel; add another 150 pages to flesh out the story and set up the ending, and there's a good book.
April 06, 2008 | |
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