Cat & Mouse by James Patterson pages 270-301

      At the beginning of this section we have learned that Alex Cross had made it through his first round of surgery. Thomas Pierce went to go check on Alex Cross to try and find out who did this to him, but Alex could not talk at the moment. John Sampson was standing near Alex's bedside to make sure that nothing bad happend to him like what happened at the New York Hospital with Gary. Then Thomas went back to Alex's house to investigate more on what happened to Alex. He was wondering if Gary Soneji was still alive and came back and did this to Alex. Gary did warn Alex that he would come back and kill Alex and his entire family. Thomas went into Alex's cellar, because that is where the assaliant had been waiting in the house throughout the duration of the party. In the cellar he finds an old coal stove that has some recently burned substances in their, and he wonders why anyone would start a fire in the middle of summer. When he searches through the ashes and he finds Alex's detective shield. Then John Sampson and Thomas Pierce go to Walter Murphy's house, Gary's grandfather. Then they started digging on his property because Thomas knows that Gary has a lot of nightmares that come back to his grandfather's yard near a firepit and an oak tree. Thomas and John had been digging all day in the hot summer sun when they finnaly uncovered lots of bones, humans and animals. They also find a train set that Gary stole from his stepbrother, that probably caused Gary's murder spree.

     I liked this part of the book because it wrapped up some of the loose ends that Alex and some of the other detectives could not figure out. some of these things are like how Thomas Pierce was able to find the bodies that had been missing for years from Gary's first kill. Also we were told how Alex was able to survive his first surgery, that no one thought he could survive. Also how Thomas was able to find another clue about the attacks on the Cross house, with the burned detective shield from Alex. This section of the book lightened up the doleful mood of the last section.