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Pop Goes the Weasel
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Pop Goes the Weasel
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Pop Goes the Weasel

Written by James Patterson

Narrated by Keith David and Roger Rees

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Detective Alex Cross is back, and he's in love. Unfortunately, a series of chilling murders in Washington intervenes, with a plot twist you will never forget. Cross' ingenious pursuit of the quirky killer produces a suspect - a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shafer. But proving that Shafer is the murderer becomes a difficult and deadly task. As the diplomat engages in a brilliant series of surprising countermoves, both in and out of the courtroom, Cross and his fiancei become hopelessly involved with the most memorable villain Cross has ever faced.
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Release dateNov 13, 2006
ISBN9781594836121
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Pop Goes the Weasel
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James Patterson

James Patterson is the CEO of J. Walter Thompson, an advertising agency in New York. He has written several successful fiction and nonfiction books, including The New York Times best seller The Day America Told the Truth.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    One of my favs in this series. Patterson will run you through a wide list of emotions in this book and will keep you interested until the end.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    quick and fun
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Very gruesome murder psycho storyline.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Pretty great plot. These books are getting better and better.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Patterson's books are fast-paced and page-turners. I really like the characters of Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson.Back Cover Blurb:Geoffrey Shafer: a man who never loses, he is prepared to play the game of games for the highest stakes of all.Alex Cross: senior homicide detective, he is determined, whatever the consequences, to unmask the man he has nicknamed the weasel, the prime suspect for a spate of killings Cross has been forbidden to investigate.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Great book for more mature readers. Gives a dark look into the mind of a killer though so if you don't like the dark aspect don't read it. Still overall a great book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Well read book on tape that kept my interest on a long drive with all the twists and turns, though some seemed a little implausable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Pop goes the Weasel is the 5th book in the Alex Cross series. Southeast Washington has a large number of homicides that go unsolved, and Detective Cross has linked a few of them together. He believes that there is a serial killer who is taking advantage of the police department's lack of enthusiasm in SE to get away with murder. Cross's main problem is the Chief of police who doesn't want to believe there is any serial killer in SE since it is politically expedient to ignore much of what goes on in that section of town.This books starts out as a police procedural and slowly evolves into a poor James Bond international mystery. Overall the book is pretty good, and fast paced and has very few boring parts. However, the closer you look at it the more outrageous it seems and the last 1/4 of the book is rather ridiculous in hindsight. The biggest problem I see is Cross and Sampson always seem to know which murders are committed by our serial killer, even when he uses a new M.O. Overall, a decent book and well worth the entertainment value, however the plot does leave some holes that are quietly glossed over.The book was read by Michael Kramer. I happen to like his reading and I think he does a good job. The only negative I would say, is his Jamaican accent sounded more like New Delhi.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This is the literary equivalent of pop corn and I am not sure why I am still reading James Patterson, except that I have a few of his books lying around and I have a rule that if a book comes into my house it has to be read before it leaves.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I really enjoyed this Alex Cross book. I hadn't really enjoyed the last 2 books as much but this book just flowed really well. The book kept me interested from beginning to end and it didn't feel like two separate plot lines were going on like the last novel did. I couldn't put this book down and I can't wait to read the next one.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Alex Cross, senior homicide detective, pits his wits against a ruthless serial killer in this oddly titled thriller. The action is fast paced with multiple perspectives being played out. One from Cross himself in first person and a more traditional narrative for that of the killer. There is a good reason for this style and it makes the twists land with more impact. No previous Alex Cross novels need to have been read, for Weasel is a standalone read. At times the plausibility is stretched somewhat, especially the finale, but at no point will readers want to put this one down. It's a short and entertaining crime fiction read from cover to cover.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Journal entry 2 by SKingList from New York, New York USA on Saturday, April 23, 2005This was interesting, different in the sense that you're left open-ended, but not necessarily a bad thing. Not my favourite of the AC series though.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I'm still getting into the series, and still haven't gotten the image of Morgan Freeman as Cross out of my mind yet so I'm still guilty of going that wouldn't happen. The ending was definitely a hanger and had me scambling to get the next book ASAP to see what happened.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Once again we watch Alex Cross investigate a diabolical killer. A serial killer that seems to not fit into a profile. And the reason is, the killer was basing his actions on the role of a die; in a game called the Four Horsemen. In this book Cross finds out who the killer is. His name is Geoffrey Shafer and he has diplomatic immunity. He has been playing this game with three others for years on a world wide basis. Cross is forced into the game by the horseman Death. The thing I enjoyed the most about this book is that Cross finds out who the killer is and arrest him. The problem is their is no apparent proof. I could not put this book down. It is a page turner.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This was a really good book. The more I read through the book the more I was drawn into the story.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The plot is not as tight as in other Alex Cross books I have read. I liked the parts where Alex and Christine interacted. The ending was predictable, except for the reunion.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I wish I could have given this book 5 stars but I was more interested in the Alex/Christine story line instead of the murder story line. I found myself skipping paragraphs to get back to Alex. I felt the story was a bit like the last book I read (Cat and Mouse).
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was super engrossing for the most part. I wasn't as crazy about the ending. It was too much like you would expect it to go.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Pop Goes The Weasel is a reasonably entertaining book, I wouldn't go as far as some folks who call it a masterpiece, but I will say it is fairly enthralling. This is the second time I've read it, the first being 6.5 years ago and I did remember it positively, yet perhaps some of that is nostalgia.My main quibble is the fact that 'the killer' makes some rather rudimentary mistakes, is spotted, and despite such, no one puts everything together and he just keeps getting away with it, he's never even questioned as to why he was hanging out in the street late at night for hours outside of a flat where two underage girls were brutalised and murdered. It was frankly a little frustrating to read and take seriously especially with the rather over the top plot point of four ex-intelligence agents playing a bizarre is-it-fantasy-or-is-it-reality game. I did find it a bit puzzling a one point how it's mentioned that the radio of a car that's a crime scene has been tampered with, but never again is that mentioned - I kept waiting for it to come back up as a 'gotcha' piece of evidence that corners the killer but it was never mentioned again.That being said, it's a pretty fast paced an intriguing story, albeit a little frustrating a times.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Originally on my book blog!

    Can I just flail instead of write a review? This was a masterpiece and you should believe me because I don’t use that word often. Everything was fabulous in this book. The characters (that’s nothing new), the plot (also nothing new), the plot twists (go figure), and the ending (SHOCKER, THAT).

    No really, this book was like fictional quicksand (as opposed to real quicksand that actually takes a really long time to swallow you up.) This book took a full two minutes, if that, to make me want to read the rest of it in one sitting. I read the back of the book before I started reading it and I saw that they put Shafer’s name on the back and I was like “um??? I know who the killer is so???” but it’s so much more than that. I wanted to keep reading to find out WHY he killed them, WHY he was such a creepo, and WHY he picked him victims.

    Alex and Christine are ~in love~ and they are perfect together. They have a very grown up relationship and they took their relationship slow. I love them together. I love Christine’s relationship with Jannie and Damon because that’s a healthy relationship. Parents: if you are going to have step kids due to a marriage with previous kids from it, read about this relationship. They are doing it right. There are some books that if they aren’t filled with suspense, they may get boring or tedious, but this series is not like that. When the suspense is not happening, I still greatly enjoy the books because of how well the relationships are written.

    This series has shed a lot on how marginalized groups feel about cops and the justice system as a whole. Patterson doesn’t go out and say “the cops don’t care about marginalized groups” because he doesn’t have to.

    “The police won’t do nothin’. You never come back here again after today. Never happen. You don’t care about us. We’re nothin’ to nobody.”

    I know not everyone spends their days reading articles of things like this, but I try to keep up on important things and I see things like this frequently. It may be uncomfortable for other people to read, but I think it’s important for Patterson to put these things in the books, especially when Alex Cross lives in a place where it happens daily.

    BUT THE PLOT TWISTS. Okay, if you’re not really into the personal lives of Alex Cross and his family, or the ties to Real Life Issues, you can skim those and still enjoy the book because the plot twists are incredible. I don’t remember the last time I read a book where the plot twists surprised me this much. If you’re a fan of plot twists, you’d be a fan of this book.

    The ending was as perfect as a book with several murders and sadness could be. I wasn’t sure how they would end a book like this, but the ending was better than I thought it would be. Probably the best ending of the series so far. As soon as I set the book down, all I wanted to do was go grab the next one and start reading it but I can’t because it’s a 3 hour drive from here.

    I totally recommend this book to anyone that doesn’t mind murder and some gruesome scenes.

    Have you read any books in this series? If so, did you like them?
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Nice and fast-paced. Not as gory as some of Patterson's. Nice build on characters.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I love the Alex Cross series. Currently reading them in order and this book doesn't disappoint.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A class C read. Pretty exciting, but not very satisfying. Our hero is in love and she gets snatched by the perp...only to show up at the end of the book (for reasons unknown, only but to the author). That said, it's a gripping, exciting novel marred only by use of some weird toys...RPG? The plot involved a supposed video game with real players on many continents. The cast included the usual, but nana moma and the kids made cameo appearances. OK, I'll read another Alex Cross novel.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    As always this was another great book by James Patterson. I am not sure there have been too many that I didn't like so far. This one kept me reading til I finished and I can't wait to read the next one. Or maybe I have read it...Hmmm!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Detective Alex Cross is back - and he's in love. But his happiness is threatened by a series of chilling murders in Washington , DC., Murders with a pattern so twisted they leave invesigators reeling. Cross's pursuit of the killer procduces a suspect, a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shafer. But proving he's the murderer becomes a potentially deadly task. As Shafer engages in a brilliant series of surprising counter moves. Alex and his fiancée become hopelessly entagled with the most memorable nemesis Cross has ever faced