| Detectives Cross and Sampson are working to prove the innocence of a death row inmate and have three weeks to beat the death clock. Trying to exonerate the convicted U.S. Army Sergent means digging into a past that some would kill to keep secret. Alex Cross has been considering resigning from the D.C. police department and wants a nice clean open and shut case for his last one. This proves just the opposite as both Cross and Sampson nearly meet their own death. Soldiers begin to die. Innocent, seeminly unrelated victims are butchered and spray painted. The commonality is a term in Vietnam back in the seventies. A group called Four Blind Mice was deployed for a mission back then and is still functioning today. Finding the connection is risky business for the detectives as they find themselves being tracked by the Four Blind Mice. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given Time/era of story: What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 60% Special suspect? - chronically deranged person Murder of certain profession? Misc. Murder Plotlets - character killed during/after sexing - solving long-past murder - - Proving innocence of very obvious suspect - Killer purposely leaves clues Kind of investigator Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book The crook is.... - stalking/killing innocents Any non-mystery subplot? descript. of violence and chases - 30 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 % How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 % Crime Thriller Yes Is MAIN CHARACTER an EVIL criminal? Yes Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes Main Character Gender - Male Profession/status: Age: - 40's-50's Ethnicity/Race Main Adversary Identity: - an organization Age: - 40's-50's Profession/status: Eccentric: Yes Motive of antagonist - money/treasure How sensitive is this character? Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters Setting United States Yes The US: - Mid-Atlantic states Asia/Pacific Yes Asian country: - Korea(s) Misc setting - prison Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture Explicit sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - use of artificial tools - actual description of sex - descript. of breasts - rape (yeech!) Unusual forms of death - perforation--bullets - perforation--swords/knives - blunt clubbing (like seals) Unusual form of death? Yes Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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