Review: Too much unnecessary garbage.  A step backward.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 25, 2013
Of the three books I've read by this author, "Death" is the one that needs the most serious improvement.  That is not a good sign as this book is the third in the Lincoln series.The book needs to be stripped of non-essentials.  Way too much time was spent on the children and family matters. There were too many pages of non-essential dialogue and phone conversations about….family.  I get the distinct impression that this book was written by a woman about a man.  Men don't think in this manner….at least the Canadian men I know.The plot was very thin.  Again, much like the second novel, I got the impression of an attempt to emulate Dan Brown but with minimum amount of real detail.  Perhaps because too much time was spent on chatting about family?All is not lost, but a serious rewrite is in order.  Underneath it all, I could just barely catch a character as worthy as Alex Cross coming out.  It will take much to get him to emerge from all the fluff in this novel.I'm being generous with 3 stars.  Even at the price this is, at best, 1/2 novel.And the end with Kat?  Are you kidding?!