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Review: Alex Cross’s Trial by James Patterson & Richard DiLallo

September 11, 2009 By: J.C. Montgomery Category: Articles, Reviews

Alex Cross Alex Cross’s Trial by James Patterson & Richard DiLallo
Historical Fiction, 416 pages
Little, Brown and Company

 

Review copy courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Book released: August 2009

 

On the back cover, the blurb states”: “Alex Cross tells the irresistible story – passed down through the generations – of an ancestor’s courageous fight for freedom.”

Actually, the only time we are introduced to Alex, and his true voice, is in the preface. In it, he prepares the reader by telling them they are about to read an account of a man his family knew, a brave man, who was part of a trial, and not just the literal kind, that affected all those who knew him.

As the story unfolds, learn about Ben Corbett in a way that we quickly forget that this is a book within a book.

Ben’s voice is strong, and it is through his eyes we see a Mississippi in a time when racial tensions still ran strong, and at times, was a deadly affair.

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