Four Blind Mice.Four Blind Mice James Patterson Little Brown & Co. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m #: 0316693006; $14.95 387 pages A tragedy occurred in the An Lo valley of Vietnam when teams of ten killers were sent into the jungle to wreak havoc among the Vietcong. Some of the men went berserk ber·serk adj. 1. Destructively or frenetically violent: a berserk worker who started smashing all the windows. 2. and killed entire villages. Twenty years later a team of hired killers, known as the Three Blind Mice three blind mice sightless rodents; lost tails to farmer’s wife. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 306] See : Blindness are killing innocent civilians and effectively framing Army veterans for murder. Worse yet, the evidence against these veterans is enough to send them to the gas chamber. Alex Cross (a D.C. detective) and his friend John Sampson set out to find the overlooked evidence. They find evidence that has been concealed by the Army. The Three Blind Mice are indeed vicious killers without remorse and there is a fourth man, their controller. The plot meanders through a series of plot twists that lead the reader to wonder if Alex Cross will survive a deadly shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. with the vicious killers. He has just seen his friend John Sampson shot. John is lying motionless in the road. And three deadly killers are about to stalk Alex. They want to carve him up ... then kill him. The secondary plot involves a possible love angle (Jamilla, a detective in California) and a grandmother who has been mother to Alex and his children. At 83, Nana Mama may have a degenerative heart disease. The blurb blurb n. A brief publicity notice, as on a book jacket. [Coined by Gelett Burgess (1866-1951), American humorist.] blurb v. for Four Blind Mice promises suspense, explosive action and plot twists. Patterson's book delivers what the blurb promised. The kind of evil that is embodied in the vicious killers in this book, we can only hope, is purely fiction. As readers, we can also hope that people find love as do Alex and John in Four Blind Mice. Marty Duncan, Reviewer www.omagadh.com |
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