The Wolf's Final Crime: The Big Bad Wolf By James Patterson

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The Wolf’s Final Crime

“The Big Bad Wolf” by James Patterson is a mystery, crime, and adventure story. The book is mainly set in Atlanta Georgia, where the crime is taken place, and is mainly around 2008.

Alex Cross is a FBI agent, and used to be a New York Policeman until recently he got hired by his friend that works in the FBI Lizzie Connolly is a blond-headed woman that is a judge’s wife. In the story Lizzie was walking home from a mall from getting regular necessities and also getting her daughter a birthday present. She is jumped by to large beings, a man and a woman, later to be recognized a couple, throwing her into a small van or car. After the family notified to police, they know it is a federal case, saying it is a crime against a federal employee they had to notify the FBI which is where Alex Cross comes in. Alex spends the next 3 or 4
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Watching surveillance. Once he comes up dry, he leaves atlanta and heads back to D.C. to think more clearly in his own home. Once his boss calls him, he then goes to the mission brief to go to Russia. Alex Cross is blinded and doesn't know why, but he goes anyway. Once Alex arrives in Russia he gets to questioning. This is when the comic relief comes in, him trying to communicate with the residents of a small town. Alex becomes sick and has to be transported to the FBI’s embassy in Moscow, until he recovers. Soon after he finds about a criminal mastermind with the title of The Wolf. Alex sees a possibility that the man and woman are here. Later in the book he finds the man and woman, which are questioned until they say they work for The Wolf. Alex Cross then goes on a wild goose chase for almost 3 weeks until he runs into

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