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How we love one-woman tasks forces! Here comes Emily Jean Dockery...you know when you p
ick up a James Patterson book, you're in for an adventure! He may be the most featured author on Whom You Know. Mr. Patterson, or Mr. Prolific, as he should be called, pens more treachery than anyone out there today. His current "Invisible" a collaboration with David Ellis, is horrific. Not the writing, of course, but the perpetrator, the evil "invisible" monster summoned up by Patterson/Ellis. A complex plot, an overwhelming sense of fear, and a mad panic to decipher the pattern this murderer leaves behind will have you, the reader, locking the world out until you've finished. Because that's what Mr. Patterson is all about: he delivers. We were delighted to see a restaurant referenced on Pennsylvania Avenue, where you would "[select] dinner from the fresh catch of the day on the iced display in the dining room, and sipping white wine, or sitting outside and looking over the fountain of the Navy Memorial" (p. 39), because that is EXACTLY where 701 is located, one of the most truly phenomenal restaurants we've tried owned by our friend Ashok Bajaj.
Chillingly creepy, you'll ponder whether the killer's favorite color is red or purple (p. 76-77), and even learn some selling tips from this person (p.52).
Patterson clearly is a master of surprise! This book is so carefully structured, every plot point rivets the reader with the unexpected. Our protagonist, Emmy, is perfectly flawed: driven but rash, smart but disempowered. We are rooting for her from page one, and how can we not when the villain is so incredibly evil? In a time when every other movie is a horror flick and every other television show is filled with violence, it's hard to come up with a serial killer that is still bone-chillingly terrifying. Well, Invisible's villain is that and more. What could be more frightening than a mass murderer so cunning, the world doesn't even know he exists? Every victim--over a hundred of them, from all over the country with no common traits--is burned up to prevent detection of meticulous torture. You will think you know what is going to happen in this book only to be shocked every time.
One after another, Patterson's books beg to be read cover to cover. His villain in "Invisible" is too close to home, and would frighten a hardened criminal with his actions. Put this book on your "must read" list, and try, just try, to keep up with James Patterson. He's leaving most authors of crime/terror/detective novels in the dust.
Are people really at their most honest at birth and death?
Invisible is Highly Recommended by Whom You Know.
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Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her nightly recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire.
Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence he can't afford to ignore. More murders are reported by the day—and they're all inexplicable. No motives, no murder weapons, no suspects. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes?
ABOUT JAMES PATTERSON:
Worldwide, James Patterson has sold 300 million books, including the Middle School books and the Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women’s Murder Club, and Maximum Ride series. The 2012 film, Alex Cross, based on his Alex Cross series, had an A rating among audiences in exit interviews. His passion to get kids to love books led him to pursue pro-reading initiatives, such as scholarships, book donations, and the #1 pro-reading not-for-profit website on the internet, ReadKiddoRead.com
