Book Review: Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson (Alex Cross 9)

Alex Cross has changed jobs from the Washington Police Department as a detective to being an agent with the FBI. A new case quickly invades his life.

A man and woman team are abducting people and have been doing so for the past two years. The FBI considers that the pair work for the Wolf who is part of the Russian mafia (or mafiya). It is believed that the kidnappers are putting the abductees into slavery in the 20^th Century.

Cross struggles a bit as a new recruit and to the FBI methods of working. He has to get to know new people but he is trying to find his way and pushes the envelope of the usual FBI ways of working. Some extra deaths result due to this conflict.

To add to Alex's problems his youngest son's mother comes back on the scene and wants to take his son back to the West Coast. I love the dips into Cross's personal and private life as well. I really felt for him in these parts.

The novel works along at a good pace but this novel is not as good as the earlier Alex Cross novels.

7/10 from me for this one.