About this title: A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Discovering a secret pattern to The Teacher's lessons, Detective Mike Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Century
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781846052644ISBN:1846052645
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Date Published: 2009
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Publisher: Random House UK Ltd
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780316018746ISBN:0316018740
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13:9780316018746ISBN:0316018740
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2009
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"The latest Patterson/Ledwidge collaboration is set in New York City focusing on the life and times of one of its finest, Detective Michael Bennett, a recently widowed Irish cop with a lovable, flu-infested brood. When a series of brazen murders occur during broad daylight in posh uptown establishments, Det. Bennett is promoted as lead investigator with pressure from the brass to solve the case quickly. It is a politically savvy move by his superiors to distract Michael, a trained hostage negotiator, from an ongoing investigation into the shooting death of a bungled hostage situation days earlier.
The trail is initially ice cold but Michael uses his instinct (combined with a lot of luck) to identify and pursue the self-named "Teacher," an egotistical psychopath, on a mission to teach manners to those condescending and rude people who have seemingly wronged him. Michael follows a series of clues which lead to an ultimate showdown with the killer. In an unusual and totally unexpected twist of fate, Michael finds himself and a beloved loved one as hostages. He then must use reverse psychology, recall every trick he learned in hostage negotiation training, and every ounce of strength he can muster to save himself, his child, and New York City from the evil clutches of the Teacher.
This novel is a light, engaging, easy suspense/thriller that reads like a made-for-TV movie. The characters are familiar (tough, loving, nice guy Irish cop who misses and loves his deceased wife; adorable kids; feisty Irish nanny; a cocky fatherly priest; a pushy, sexy reporter, etc.) and there is the evenly paced plot with short cliffhanger chapters that keeps the reader turning pages. Enjoyable and recommended for die-hard Patterson and Ledwidge fans.
"If there's anyone out there who was looking for a good thriller, the book you've been looking for is Run for Your Life by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. This book is the sequel to Step on a Crack, but you'll have no trouble understanding even if you haven't read the first one.
This was one of those books that have nonstop action on every page. Mike Bennett, a detective who works for the New York Police Department, must track down a deadly killer, who calls himself "the Teacher" and is on a mission to exterminate rich people who have no manners and treat poor people like trash. Okay, honestly I thought this was a pretty ridiculous reason to go around killing people, so it would've been nice if there was a more realistic reason. The Teacher foils the police time after time, while Detective Bennett and the rest of the police department desperately try to predict where the Teacher will strike next. One time, the police find the place the Teacher is going to commit the next murder, but they arrive too late to prevent the murder, and the Teacher slips through their fingers and escapes to the subway. Two cops follow him, and they almost have him cornered, but he shoots them, and escapes from the terrified subway. Now this definitely gets Bennett fired up, and he tells us "Everything had changed from an hour ago. The shooter had killed one, probably two of our own. The stakes had skyrocketed." As the police finally get an idea of who this killer is, Bennett realizes he must stop the Teacher's final plans if he wants to save himself and his family.
Run for Your Life was an exhilarating mystery right off the bat, because it starts off with Mike Bennett on another case, and the action there immediately pulls the reader in, then shifts to the Teacher, who is plotting his scheme. The story develops really quickly, which was nice since I can't stand books with slow starts. Something that was really interesting about the book was that it has two narrators. One is Detective Bennett, the protagonist, and the other is the Teacher, the antagonist of the story. I was amazed at how smoothly Patterson pulled this off, and it worked unbelievably well since the book is a mystery. When you read the story from Teacher's point of view, it describes the Teacher's actions in a way that hints at what is going to happen next. It gives enough detail to feel like you are in the Teacher's mind, but doesn't fully reveal his plans. After that, the book switches to the detective's point of view, and he finds out what the Teacher had planned all along. It's an ingenious way of telling a story.
I also loved how Patterson changes how he describes the Teacher throughout the book, especially as the Teacher gets cornered. At first, the Teacher seems perfect: everything goes as he had planned, he predicts the police's every move, and he remains calm after every murder. The first description Patterson gives of the Teacher is "The man in the beautifully tailored, two-button Givenchy suit had finished his morning's work with his usual expertise and speed. Many things in his life had changed since he had seen the truth - he was a new man now - but his superior intelligence and skills remained intact," giving the impression that the Teacher is a superior human being that can escape the police. As the story progresses, he is forced to do things he hadn't originally planned. He is thwarted by the police, loses his calmness and is forced to take actions he doesn't want to. I thought it was a good way of showing that every person has his or her flaws. This book shows that the Teacher is aware of this, because even in his thoughts, he says how things aren't going his way and he can't get his plans to work like they should.
I won't give away what happens in the end, but apparently think Patterson and Ledwidge wanted to have a really dramatic and climatic ending. It was kind of believable when I read it, but looking back, I'm just thinking "yeah right." Well, I guess it's better than having a really anticlimactic ending, but still, the ending could've been a ton better.
All in all, this book is an excellent thriller with quick nonstop action. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in these kinds of mysteries. Make sure you have lots of free time before you start reading, because it will be hard to put down until you finish it. If you are okay with books that are realistic for the most part, you won't really mind all of the crazy parts of this book. This was a pretty easy and fast read, so if you like this genre, get this book as soon as possible from your local library or bookstore!"
"The scariest part of this book was imagining I was Mary Catherine stuck in a household with ten children who have the flu.
"The Teacher" is a killer out to teach the world some manners. Michael Bennett, father to the ten children, is the New York detective charged with capturing this guy who is not so randomly shooting people, tho the killer does a lot of other random things. In the beginning of the book, "The Teacher" gets into his car, starts the engine and, while waiting for the engine to warm, pulls out his Blackberry and reads his "manifesto" again. Then he opens the garage door to pull out. Apparently, he's never heard that it's not a great idea to start your car in an enclosed garage let alone one that's attached to the house. And how did the killer manage to get all those high end creature comforts, i.e., big screen TV, a gourmet range and refrigerator, leather furniture, etc., in an apartment in Hell's Kitchen without attracting all sorts of attention, especially from the wrong kind of people. It was just bizarre.
Now I can remember why I stopped reading most of Patterson's new books. I believe Patterson has done his readers's a disservice when he began writing the outlines of his books and letting another author finish. I much preferred the Alex Cross series and his early works."
"No author is more popular than James Patterson. So when I decided to read one of his books I happened to just pick the latest one that he had written at that time. This is the second book in a series featuring a widower detective with many adopted children. (I did not know that before I read it.) I quickly realized why Patterson is known for short chapters. I don't really understand why some authors like to have 120 chapters in a book with a few pages per chapter. The first half was hard to get through because I was extremely uninterested in the personal life of the detective. He makes what seems like endless references to all of his many kids having a horrible case of the flu and how sick they are and how unbelieveably amazing the nanny is to them. It seemed very unnecessary to the main story, which involves the detective trying to track down a serial killer whose victims have nothing in common at first glance. If you can get through the first part, the second half is much better. The last fourth of the book was surprisingly compelling and so I thought it was worth it to read the book, for the most part."
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