Step on a Crack
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4.2 • 923 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In this heart-pounding novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author, Detective Michael Bennett faces a sinister foe on New York City's holiest ground.
During a state funeral, armed men disguised as monks seize St. Patrick's Cathedral and take the high-profile hostages ransom.
NYPD officer Michael Bennett steps into the dangerous role of lead negotiator.
As the world watches and the tension boils to a searing heat, the city's humble hero must find a way to end the standoff and rescue them all.
"NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is something of a living legend." —Deadline Hollywood
"Totally gripping and downright impossible to put down ... Patterson has a knack for creating genuinely likable heroes, and Michael Bennett fits the bill." —Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Pop a bowl of popcorn, settle into a comfy chair and you might finish this combination thriller and tearjerker before the popcorn. Bestseller Patterson (Cross) and Ledwidge (The Narrowback) spin a fantastic tale of an audacious mass kidnapping and the unlikely detective thrust into the primary role of negotiator, sleuth and hero. Michael Bennett, a senior NYPD homicide detective, has a wife dying of cancer and 10 adopted children of various ethnic origins. When St. Patrick's Cathedral, site of the celebrity-packed funeral of a former first lady, is seized by a dozen ruthless men, Bennett ends up as point man for the hastily assembled negotiating team. From then on, the tale requires the reader to go with the flow as Bennett alternates visits to his wife's hospital bedside, brief trips to check on how his kids are managing and tense dealings with the well-prepared kidnappers. Short on credibility on the crime front, long on sentimentality on the home front, this book would be a good candidate for adaptation as a one-hour TV movie.
Customer Reviews
Great Read
Enjoyed this book. Combination of intense drama,heartfelt emotion and intrigue made it a very easy read.
Ngl women’s murder club is 100x better
This book is good (I only read the sample) but I think that the women’s murder club is so much better than this
Not a believable story
I read the 15th book in this series 1st and then went back and read this one. I didn’t realize it was a series at first. I did not like that book but I thought maybe it was because I had not started from number one. I also did not like this book. It should not have started in the last part of his relationship with his wife or when they adopted their children. The book should’ve started near the beginning, but what I dislike most about the book was when they were taking down the bad guys there is absolutely no way in this world. this would’ve happened the way it went down, the police would’ve never arrested them that way so the book is very unbelievable not very interesting