Cat & Mouse By James Patterson Pages 52-65

     This section that I have just read finishes up part one of the book, Train Station Murders. I continued reading from chapter 16 and Alex Cross is on a date with Christine, the Principal of Truth School. Truth School is where Alex's kids, Damon and Jannie attend. The date takes place in a restaurant called Kinkead's In Foggy Bottom, it is one of the best restaurants in Washington. It is a real fancy restaurant where there is a man named Hilton Felton playing a jazz piano, and Bob Kinkead, the owner, was inspecting every plate making sure everything was perfect. Christine asks Alex how his day went but he says that he would not like to talk about it because he does not want to relive it. This date takes place on the day when Gary Soneji has just murdered many people in Union Station. During this date, Alex thinks that it is going really well, but when Alex asks Christine on another date she says that it is too soon to start dating again, because her husband has just died about six months ago.

     Then the mood of the book switches back to tension with Gary Soneji. He is back in his town of Wilmington, Delaware. He explains the scenery and tells how nothing really fits, like there is a Mural of Whales looked like they were stolen of Southern California also the people wore clothes that looked like they were in 1961. Also the reason that Soneji had come back to this place was for Revenge. Gary goes into his old house where his wife, Missy, and daughter, Roni, was watching T.V.. When he was in their house he had a weapon drawn waiting to attack, and as they both screamed because they know what he does, they chapter ends and breaks the tension.

      Then the setting moves to a police scene of the DCPD. At this scene the Police force is trying to collect evidence in order to find the killer Gary Soneji. The DCPD had seen Gary Soneji in his earlier years, but he was a master at disguising himself, so know one could identify him. During this evidence collection they extract information from civilians who had been in Union Station, which were the "untrained eye", and also the officers who were at Union Station after the attack which were the "trained eye". At the end of this scene, Alex gets a call from Curtis Waddle from the FBI evidence lab, and he tells Alex that they found blood on the sniper rifle used, and it was blood from Alex Cross.

     I liked this part of the book because it gave me a break in all of the tensions and murders with the slow paced scene at the start. I didn't like the middle part of this section because I did not understand why Gary would go back to his town of Wilmington, Delaware and kill his wife and daughter. I also liked the suspense at the end of this part when we figured out that Alex's blood was on the sniper rifle that killed many people in Union Station, even though it was Gary that pulled the trigger in Union Station. It will be interesting to see what other tricks Gary Soneji will have for his worthy opponent Alex Cross.