Book Report in English

-Brian S. Mayores -IV-St.Augustine

Title:
- The Big Bad Wolf

About the Author:

-James Patterson
- (born March 22, 1947) is

an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross. - James Patterson is the author of the two bestselling new detective series of the past decade: Alex Cross novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers London Bridges, The Big Bad Wolf, Four Blind Mice, and Violets are blue, and the Womens Murder Club series, including the #1 bestseller 1st to Die, 2nd Chance, and 3rd Degree. He is also author of the bestselling love stories Suzannes Diary for Nicholas and Sams Letters to Jennifer. He live in Florida - James Patterson is the worlds most popular thriller writer, with over 150 million copies of his books sold worldwide.

Characters:
Alex Cross - is a trained forensic psychiatrist and former Washington
D.C. homicide detective. He is an African-American based out of the Southeast quadrant of D.C.. The Big Bad Wolf is the first novel in the series to feature him in his new role as an FBI agent.

Dr. Cross - is portrayed as a lonely individual, though empathic and a model father. Though
well-educated and well-paid, he chooses to reside in the poor Southeast quadrant. He is very involved in the community, most notably volunteering at St. Anthony's Parish in his neighborhood.

The Wolf crime.

a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organized

Kyle Craig/Gary Soneji -

the two psychopaths she was a graduate of Vassar, class

Mrs. Elizabeth Connolly -

of 87, she called a degree in art history that is practically worthless in the real world.

Lizzie Connolly - is the mother of two from an upscale section of Atlanta,

known as Buckhead.

Christine Johnson - she is the mother of Alex's youngest child. Gordon Nooney the senior agent

Settings:
Hoover Building
The Hoover Building is the headquarters of the FBI, where the main character, Alex Cross, spends a great deal of his time.

Washington, DC

Cross lives and works in the Washington area. He was a Washington DC police officer, who now lives and works there as an FBI agent.

Quantico
The FBI Training Academy is in Quantico. Alex is a new FBI trainee and attends his classes in Quantico.

Buckhead section of Atlanta, Georgia

Lizzie Connolly, the first kidnapping victim, was kidnapped from a mall in Buckhead. She, her husband and children also resided in Buckhead.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Pasha Sorokin's home is in Fort Lauderdale. Alex Cross and the FBI raid his home and rescue Lizzie Connolly there.

Farm in Webster, New Hampshire

The location of where abduction victim Benjamin Coffey was held. His buyer, Mr. Potter, is one of the Wolf's clients and turns out to be of great help to the FBI.

Plot:
Dr. Alex Cross is in the middle of his training at the FBI when he is assigned to work on a kidnapping case. A federal judge's wife has been kidnapped, and Dr. Cross discovers that her kidnapping fits the pattern of other recent kidnappings. A Russian mobster known as "The Wolf" has been kidnapping people and selling them into sexual slavery. In addition to the judge's wife, his subordinates also kidnap a housewife, and several male college students for clients. Though Cross is able to identify The Wolf as a key player in the human trafficking ring, his true identity and whereabouts remain a mystery. The only method of contacting him is through a high-tech, secure website, and any person the FBI manages to take into custody ends up dead at the hands of a mole. Eventually, with the assistance of the New York City Police Department, Central Intelligence Agency, Secret Service, and the Russian government, the FBI is able to arrest a man by the

name of Andrei Prokopev. Though the FBI believes him to be The Wolf, it is revealed at the very end of the novel that The Wolf is, in fact, still at large.

Summary:
It is about a guy named Alex Cross and he is now the newest member of the Washington D.C FBI and he was going to retire but he new girlfriend is on the San Fransisco Police Department. So now his newest case is that the world's most dangerous killer the "Wolf" is buying the richest people and kidnapping them and selling them to people who want them. Women are disappearing. It's happening all over the country, and it appears that the women are targeted specifically. The FBI are brought in, and that brings in Detective Alex Cross. Alex has left the DC Police Department and is being fast-tracked in the FBI for a top position. He soon discovers that the women are being ordered as if they were on a menu on a secret website for very rich, very depraved men. The women are kidnapped and sold to these men as sex slaves. In addition to the perplexing case, Alex has other issues to worry about. He is separated from his new love, Jamilla, who is on the West Coast while he is on the East. And a former love, Christine Johnson, has reappeared in a move that bodes trouble. She is the mother of Alex's youngest child, the baby also named Alex. Christine walked out of their lives a year ago to go find herself after a brutal crime, and now she is back and wants custody of Alex. As Cross works the case, he discovers that the mastermind behind the kidnapping ring is a Russian man known only as the Wolf. The Wolf is never seen, but his intimidation extends to everyone he has any contact with. Anyone who talks about him at all is brutually murdered with no questions asked. That makes tracking him down and stopping his spree more difficult than any other search Alex can remember.

Conflict of the novel:

Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, beautiful women are being kidnapped-to be bought and sold as slaves. Behind this depraved scheme stands a shadowy figure known only as The Wolf, a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organized crime. With Alex's personal life in chaos because of his ex-fiancee's return and with the FBI's caution testing his patience, Alex has to go out on his own. For to stalk a ruthless predator without a name or a face, Alex Cross must become a lone wolf himself.

Interesting part of the novel:

When Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered a predator known only as the Wolf. Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.

Character you liked most:

The Big Bad Wolf because a character that loves power and wants to have it all. He becomes the head of the Russian mafia and makes sure everyone connected in or with the mafia knows he is the boss now. He uses his size and strength and lack of compassion or conscious to intimidate and scare others. He lives among the wealthy and runs well in their circles without being detected as a bad guy.

Lesson learn from the novel:

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.