Cat & Mouse by James Patterson pages 302-348

      This section of the book focuses more on Mr. Smith and Thomas Pierce. When Thomas Pierce was in his hotel room he was thinking about the Alex Cross case when an email came to him from Mr. Smith telling where he was going to kill his next victim in France. Thomas then decided that he must leave immediately for Paris to try and stop Mr. Smith from murdering another person. As Thomas was leaving Washington D.C. he ran into John Sampson, and John got really mad because Thomas was supposed to be putting 100 percent effort into Alex Cross's case. Thomas boarded a plane to France where he thought long and hard about how he could try and stop the murder, but this is dramatic irony because we already know that Mr. Smith has killed Dr. Abel Sante. Thomas's plane landed in Paris and he met up with some of the local police officers. With the local police and Sondra Greenberg, Thomas went to where Mr. Smith told him to go, the Parc de Montsouris. Then Thomas and Sondra got an email from Mr. Smith stating that he lied to Thomas because he left Paris and that the body was really at the Buttes-Chaumont Park. After they found the body, Thomas flew back to D.C. to help with the case on Alex Cross. Then we see Christine Johnson and she has been picked up in a FBI sedan and she goes to this building where she sees Alex, and apparently he is alright. Once back in D.C. Thomas studies some more of Alex's notes on Gary Soneji, and he finds who he thinks was Gary's partner and who could have attacked the Cross's. This man Simon Conklin and Gary as kids thought that they were superior to other kids, and they called themselves "great ones". After John Sampson and Thomas Pierce interviewed Simon, Thomas new that Simon and Gary had to work together. Later, Thomas broke into Simon's house, and in their he found the same type of rifle Gary had used in Union Station. Also, Thomas had found Gary's train set at that moment Thomas knew that Simon and Gary were best friends, and that Simon was the one who attacked Alex.

        I liked this section because it really wrapped up the end of part 4 of the book. Thomas was able to go all the way to Paris and try and stop Mr. Smith, and still come back to Washington D.C. and get good solid evidence on who attacked the Cross family. I also like how Thomas was very persistent with his suspect Simon, John was ready to leave because he thought Simon had a good alibi when Alex was shot, but Thomas knows that Gary and Simon work together. I think that this book is really coming together nicely and I want to see what happens at the end of the book.