I managed to start my book reading during lunch hour. And just recently, I finished reading another James Patterson’s book – Step On A Crack.
The story was about a high profile hostage holding of VIPs in a high profile function. The story began with what seems to be an accident-murder of a VVIP and eventually led to the situation mentioned above. The “gang” demanded certain ransom for the release of the hostages but the way the gang worked puzzled everyone including a detective-negotiator, the main hero of the story.
What was nice for me about this book was that the character of the this detective. Not only he battled with this crazy gang but also he had a dying wife due to cancer and with almost a dozen of him little adopted children (the eldest being 12, if I’m not mistaken) to take care. It’s a heart warming and touching scenarios that this detective chose not to lose himself in front of his children and keep it holding till the end. I was full of emotion when reading the part where the wife was about to die and how he and the children react to that fact.
For me, although there’s curiosity of knowing why the gang did all these, I was actually more interested to know more about the detective’s family after the passing of his wife. The children portrayed in the story took care of each other and were very very obedient to their parents. Eventually for me, the crime story became the secondary issue while reading this book.
Not much a suspense in this book. The plot was pretty “standard” with not much of twist. But the heart warming story in the detective’s family was a good one to give this book a try.
