Bulleye By James Patterson Essay

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James Patterson has written another fantastic and fascinating novel, Bullseye for his thriller series Michael Bennet, which is the 9th novel out of the 10 novels in the New York Times best-selling series. Bullseye focuses on the main theme of Protecting and being loyal to your country and doing the right things at all cost. The title foreshadows the main focus of the plot line, which is that the President of the United States of America is being the center target (the bullseye) to be assassinated by The Soviet Union. Patterson sticks to his good vs bad guy theme, which is shown as the Soviet Union is trying to assassinate the president of the United States although the cold war has ended many years before vs Michael Bennett being the hero to save the president. In Bullseye, James Patterson uses imagery, detail, and diction to portray a suspenseful and realistic tone. The author James …show more content…
The Russian President and the President of the United States have made their way to the United Nations to sort out their differences as countries, meanwhile, a husband and wife that are assassins go about killing their targets as necessary. Their next victim is the President of the United States of America, which if he is killed it could make the country fall apart into a million pieces. Michael Bennett a detective in New York is called into trace and find this dangerous couple that could be a threat and he is pulled away from his family. Detective Bennett discovers something that might start the cold war all over again maybe a second cold war. As hard as Bennett is working his alliances doubt him constantly, but it doesn’t matter because detective Bennett is the only one who can stop the shot from killing the President of the United States. Michael Bennett is America's only hope, the only one who can save the president and the United States of

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