Cat & Mouse By James Patterson pages 69-99

    This section of reading started part two of the book, Monster Hunt. The book continues with a scene at Penn Station in New York City, and Gary Soneji is at this trainstation. When Gary had arrived it was about 5:00 or 5:30. Gary was planning on killing more innocent civilians like he had in Union Station, but instead of using a sniper rifle his weapon of choice was a six-inch knife. The knife had a mother-of-pearl handle and a tight serpentine blade on both sides. Gary then picked out a random commuter that he said he had recognized the commuters face in his dreams. Gary stabbed his first victim, the business man, straight in the heart and shortly after he killed the two other innocent victims. As Gary was running away from the murder scene down the stairs no one attempted to stop him.

    Then the NYPD arrive in Penn Station and try and figure out the crime scene. The two detectives that had arrived were Detective Manning Goldman and his partner Detective Carmine Groza. Groza was said to look  like a young Sylvester Stallone. Detective Goldman soon figured out that the killer in Union Station has to be the same one in Penn Station. He figured this out because eye-witness accounts showed the killer coming from the Metroliner, which originated in Washington D.C.. Then Detective Goldman calls D.C. because he believes that Gary Soneji is in New York. Then at 6:35 in the morning, Alex Cross and his partner John Sampson take the Metroliner from D.C. all the way to the New York Penn Station. They Arrive in New York at 9:00. When The D.C. detectives meet the NYPD detectives, they converse on what they already know about Gary Soneji. As they examined the bodies they all noticed that there was an unusual amount of blood by they victims, and Goldman stated how Soneji had inflicted very deep wounds on his victims. Detective Goldman also told the D.C. detectives that Gary had put potassium cyanide on the blade, and that poison would kill someone in less than a minute. Then Both Alex and Manning both agree that they think that Gary had escaped through one of the trains.

      I am really enjoy reading this book. The book is very fast paced. Sometimes the murder scenes are a little bit graphic, with all the blood, violence, and the in depth descriptions. I really enjoy reading about how Alex Cross, and the other detectives think about the different murder scenes, because my Uncle is a detective and it gives me a little bit of insight of what he experiences and how he works.