The fourth Michael Bennett thriller is Tick Tock. Written by Michael Ledwidge and James Patterson, this follows the NY Detective and his family of ten children, Grandpa, and their nanny while they vacation out on Breezy Point. Oh, and there is a vicious psychopath loose in New York.
It's a tense vacation as Micheal deals with a gang of local thugs who intimidate his family. Suddenly, Michael is called back to the city to work again with FBI agent Emily Palmer in another case of an ultra-rich, designer-clad nut who solves his issues with terrorism. There's one in every book - if you are ultra-rich, you might want to check - you could be a sociopathic terrorist and not even know it. Being so rich, he lives in a 7,000 sq. ft marble walled apartment high above Central Park, and being so weird, he likes to eat in the dark with the shades drawn with his hands. His hobby is following serial killers and their crimes (such as The Mad Bomber and the Son Of Sam), and getting another anal psychopath to recreate them.
For being a top detective, Mike is very lax at his job only giving it his half attention. It would be nice to see the NYPD counterterrorism unit portrayed as ultra sharp minds, yet they seem to bumble through. Michael once again strings both his nanny Mary Catherine and his partner Emily along, sleeping with one and then romancing the other. This one had some momentum and danger, with both the vacation storyline and the New York storyline playing out evenly. There are many people who love all Patterson's novels, indifferent reviews or not. But it's not a series I'd recommend.
2011 / Paperback / 352 pages
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