James Patterson's The Big Bad Wolf

Although many authors write mysteries, few of them are as successful as author James Patterson. In fact, the New York Times calls him, “one of America's most influential authors”. The New York Times may have gotten it’s inspiration for this quote from one of James Patterson’s books, The Big Bad Wolf. James Patterson’s 2003 mystery novel, The Big Bad Wolf, allows Alex Cross, an almost psychic FBI agent, to show his abilities to get into the mind of a criminal and predict their next move. Alex Cross Is using his psychic mind to try and outsmart a notorious criminal known as The Wolf. The whole Federal Bureau of Investigation is working tirelessly to capture The Wolf before he can kidnap any more people for his white sex slave business. The Big
They had their first person involved in this touchy case and would use him to their advantage in any way they could. In addition to this important breakthrough, Alex Cross’ group takes down the husband of the women who started the whole case, “We all felt that Lizzie Connolly and her daughters had been through more than enough pain already. They didn’t need to see Brendan Connolly — Sphinx — arrested at the family house in Buckhead. They didn’t need to find out the awful truth about him like that.”(357). The author has done a wonderful keeping the reader updated, their is no doubt that he kept this in mind during writing. James Patterson’s mystery novel, The Big Bad Wolf, follows the two main characters, Alex Cross, and The Wolf. The Wolf's Motive, his love for his money is easily understandable. Alex Cross, a homicide detective keeps the readers up to date by allowing the reader into his almost psychic mind. James Patterson has written a mystery novel that successfully meets all requirements for a mystery novel, he has achieved every author's main goal of interesting the reader enough for them to continue reading. This is the reason that James Patterson has written four New York Times best