I was blown away last year when I read THE KNIGHT by Steven James and have been looking forward this book since then. Of course by the time I started reading it I had read over 200 other books so I was a little hazy on the details. Not to worry, Steven does a great job of bringing it all right back and more. I suddenly remembered why I loved the THE KNIGHT so much - Steven James is a brilliant writer! His characters explode off the page while his storylines are unbelievably believable and the suspense and tension in the books are amazingly gripping. I settled in for this really long book to take me all weekend - I finished it in a 24 hour time frame, I couldn't put it down. His books are not for the faint hearted, there is a distinct Ted Dekker feel to some of the more descriptive scenes, while his subject matter can be very intellectual, in this book there is a lot on primate research and stuff like that. I was thoroughly engrossed in this book from start to finish and was sorry to see it finish. The good news, there will be more Patrick Bowers. The bad news, not until 2011.

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Awesome! Steven James continues to be a favorite author! This 4th book didn't dissapoint! Action Packed, creative, & intelligent only begin to describe this series!

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This had been on my shelf for some time until I realized it is a wanted book so I got it, wow, I don't know why I waited so long--this is a great series, it just moves right along at a good fast pace with something happening all the time and twists and turns you don't expect--very good series!

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#4 in series. Patrick & Tessa are spending time at Quantico so Pat can teach classes. Unfortunately a grisly murder happens and Patrick is requested on the task force. Twists, turns, politics, nanotechnology, & social experiments top off a murder spree that involves two brilliant killers and a killer from Patrick's past. Add in Tessa's biological father inserting himself in their lives and you have a pressure cooker of a thriller. Teaming up with Detective Warren & Lien-hua, Patrick has his hands full. Fast paced, intriguing, & keeps you guessing all the way to the reveal.

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I could not wait for this book to come out as I had previously read the first three in the series and I can say that I was not disappointed in the least. It has or talks about many of the same characters from all of the Bowers Files so you feel that you are still in the loop when you begin reading. Truthfully, I did have a problem getting through the first 100 pages but at that point it started getting my attention and just built from there. By the time I reached the last 100 pages I didn't want to put it down until I had finished it. Every time that I thought I had a good guess as to who the bad guy was, something happened and I would have to re-think it.

The only drawback that I had with the book (and it was very minor) is that one of the murders takes place where they work with chimpanzees and it gets into a little bit of too technical talk for me concerning the research that the foundation was doing, metacognition being one part of it. I kept wanting them to get that part over with.

I can't wait for the next one, The Queen, to come out next year.

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