I should have read the reviews before buying this book.

It is crap.

The ending is so full of shit that one would feel cheated for read to the end.

The big bad escaped from the court house.

How could it happened? Are the police that useless?

Two women wanting this jerk? Seriously? There isn't much build and suddenly two women have hard on for Michael. Michael was chasing after Tara while taken Mary C for granted. 

All this setup is bullshit. No romantic. Just trying to make the main character, a sexist jerk. look better.

The only bad is that he has adopted children and they are relying on him.

There should be more insight in the working of the police. Or a better alternative in dealing with drugs. And all this main characters suggest is to use violence to fight violence. 

It would not work.

Regret to get this book in the first place. The threat against him should be taken more seriously from the start. There isn't much professionalism demonstrated in the story. 

Lesson learned. Check review before buying. 

OK. What's it all about.

A drug lord has came to land on US soil to attend a university gratulation. The police knew he is coming and knew he was meeting up with close friend. 

So the police and NEA ambushed him. Got him and put him in custody to stand for trial.

In the meantime, the drug lord wanted to get revenge.

Both sides seems a bit too hot headed. The overall speed is uneven. Some chapter seems not related or at least not moving the story along. 

The tension is not there. The children were supposingly in danger but no adults seems to be aware. Michael still go on a date, leaving the children alone with the nanny until 1 AM. The nanny got jealous but for no good reason as they were not even dating yet. Walked out at 2 AM. 

Adults acting silly while there is threat on the children lives seems irresponsible for these characters. 

Not a good one. 

So wrongheaded. 

The priest character in the book is a completely jerk that insulted all the single mothers in the world. Kids could not brought up with a man? Are you kidding me? What a piece of lowlife sexist Catholic piece of shit priest! 

Still reading on and hope this sexist Catholic priest got tortured  and murdered by the either the gangs or the drug lord or by anyone that had overheard his insults to mothers. 

The main character Michael is a hotheaded cop who still gave respect and quoted some shit that jerk sexist rapist Bill Cosby said, the very same one who is now on trial for sex assault. 

There is no depth of the thinking of crime, or how someone could get away with so much crimes. 

This is going to be worst book I read so far this year. 

James Patterson is a very famous writer that I have not started reading until very recently. This is the second book I have on shelf, and not sure if it is a good representation of his work. As this is a co-authored with Michael Ledwidge.

First 100 pages. 

There is a big bad. He is coming to to town for a meeting.

This is the one chance that the police, and the NEA to get this big bad drug lord.

And Michael Bennett is right in the middle of it. 

He caught the guy, but with great loss as his best friend was shot and killed during the shootout. 

Now the big bad is in custody and ordered to send message with guns to those involved by showing up in the wake.

Isn't there rule anymore? 

The not so good part of it is scene at church and such. Not related to the story and make the character more stupid to have believe in fairytale. 

I got this on a book sales for USD13 for 4. So, I didn't check any review before buying. Think I might regret this as I dislike books with religious preachy tone unless it is part of the plot twist. 

A picked this book out from our library. This is a great book for those that are learning to read as the words are really easy. I really liked how we are given actually pictures of penguins and not drawings. A really enjoyed the baby penguins and would comment on how tiny he was. I thought the fact stops were pretty neat to read. I think toddlers would really enjoy this as it is about animals and the words are not very long on the pages.