Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 6/20/2009 + 1223 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

I was a little mixed on this one. This was definitely not a typical Alex Cross story. This one takes Cross to Africa in search of the killers of an old college sweetheart (who had been working on an expose of the goings on in Nigeria) and her family. As usual, this was a page-turner with some extremely bad characters from Africa committing some extremely brutal murders in both the U.S. and Africa. While in Africa, Cross sees first hand some of the outrages being perpetrated on the African people in Nigeria, Sierra Leon, and the Sudan including the refugee camps in Darfur. While these parts of the novel are eye-opening, I'm not sure an Alex Cross novel is the best forum to expound on the political turmoil in Africa. The whole premise of Cross running off to Africa to seek the killers is a little preposterous. Cross is never in command of the situations when he gets to Africa or for that matter throughout the book. He seems to be working completely in the dark and does not really use his wits as he does in some of the earlier novels in this series. Overall a mild recommendation.

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