The Negotiator

For this novel, James PATTERSON ignores his favorite character profiling (Alex CROSS series) and its Women's Murder Club. With Hostage Crisis, he is interested in Bennett, an expert in negotiation cop will have much to do with a VIP hostage-taking in a cathedral.

With over 100 million books sold, PATTERSON is today the most widely read author of thriller in the world. His recipe is simple: a detective story punctuated in a sleek and smooth style, made with short chapters.
Hostage crisis is no exception to this rule and is even a good surprise. But it is not in the detective story, altogether traditional and suspense can be slow and repetitive, but in the course of the main character in parallel with the investigation.
Indeed, PATTERSON confronts his cop (accompanied by his ten adopted children), illness of his wife, the end of life. And finally, it takes more guts thriller by family scenes and the questions of the cop on his suffering and possible future without his wife as hostage taking itself.

In short: a novel that binds easily and quickly, creating surprise and arousing emotion by a poignant subplot.