London Bridges

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Peter J. Fernandez, Denis O'Hare

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

In broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley, Nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates a hundred feet above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds: a town annihilated in an instant.

Alex Cross is on vacation in San Francisco with his girlfriend, Jamilla Hughes, when he gets the call. The Russian supercriminal known as the Wolf claims responsibility for the blast.

Major cities around the globe are threatened with total destruction. The Wolf has proven he can do it; the only question is, can anyone stop him in time? Surveillance film of the blast reveals the presence of another of Alex Cross' most dangerous enemies, the ruthless assassin known as the Weasel.

World leaders have just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm. Joining forces with Scotland Yard and Interpol, Alex fights his way through a torrent of false leads, impersonators, and foreign agents before he gets close to the heart of the crimes. Racing down the hairpin turns of the Riviera in the most unforgettable finale James Patterson has ever written, Alex Cross confronts the truth of the Wolf's identity, a revelation that even Cross himself may be unable to survive.

©2004 James Patterson (P)2004 Time Warner AudioBooks

Exciting and predictable

Well read which helped a lot. Patterson is running out of steam. Time to get a new hero or something. Not up to his previous thrillers.

London Bridges

The Wolf at the door, again. The spinning of a tale. The spinning of the listener. So well done. Thoroughly engrossing. Many surprises. Very enjoyable.

Great but not the best.

This story is set as a follow up to the Big. Bad Wolf but the connection takes half ghe book to get to. Main character Alex Cross is more of a side note struggling with life/work balance and several at risk relationships. Suggest an intro that takes us from the end of the last book to present day book.

Some weird audio with footsteps between chapters.

If it’s any consolation, I finished this in a single night.

The music

Please stop with the music. It takes and distracts from the actual story. The narrator and plot line speak for themselves

Better than what the critics have said about it

I thought "London Bridges" was a good "listen". The story hung together well and characters and situations seem to hang together well.

Does it compare with the quality of the author's other books? I think so. I was happy to see that the author spent more time with the storyline and with the "Wolf" than with "Alex" and his family and love life. I could see that he needed to build a foundation for Alex's love and family life in his previous books but he devoted just enough and not too much time with them in this one.

All in all a pretty good audiobook.

Powerful performances

My personal favorite narrators of any Alex Cross audiobook return for a brutal follow up to The Big Bad Wolf

maybe i'm to easily entertained

but i thought the book was good, suspence and revelant in todays world. alex cross feels like a real person. it made mt drive time go fast

London Bridges

Great book!!! Terrifying but great!!!Alex Cross gets the bad guy again!!! Yes!!! It’s a good chase from city to city but the bad guy goes down!!!

Good story, silly sound effects

Good narration on this one, and another great installment of the story. As far as the audiobook goes, the characters were well voiced with the exception of a few of the many accents that were pretty off target. Most of the French and Swiss accents attempted sounded Indian, and the sound effects / music in the background of action and sex scenes was beyond goofy and distracting, like video game music. Otherwise good!

Not my favorite

This was not my favorite book in series. Kind of a lame ending. Hopefully the next one will be better.