![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is Gary Soneji-a nobody living a deceptively quiet life as Gary "Murphy"-who has killed 200 people and now wants to commit the Crime of the Century and become Somebody: Soneji/Murphy snatches the daughter of a top actress and the son of the US secretary of the treasury. psychologist/cop Alex Cross, is black, while his lover, Secret Service honcho Jezzie Flanagan, is white and the narrative moves briskly by cutting between Cross's ambling account and a sharper third-person tracking, mostly of the killer's movements. A few charms lift this above run-of-the-mill: Patterson's hero, D.C. And it's really too bad for Patterson (The Midnight Club, 1988, etc.) that William Diehl's new thriller, Primal Fear (reviewed above), covers some of the same territory with superior energy and skill. Catchy title too bad the psychothriller behind it-despite the publisher's big push-is a mostly routine tale of cop vs. ![]()
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