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Pop Goes the Weasel

By: James Patterson
Narrated by: Keith David, Roger Rees
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 In POP GOES THE WEASEL, James Patterson has created a formidable villain every reader will see in the shadows when the lights are out, a tender love story, a plot powered by relentless suspense and psychological thrills kicked up to an all-time high.

'It's all just a game, darling. I play with three other men. Their names are FAMINE, WAR and CONQUEROR. My name is DEATH. You're a very lucky girl - I'm the best player of all.'

Geoffrey Shafter: a man who never loses, he is prepared to play the game of games for the highest stakes of all.

Alex Cross: senior Washington, DC homicide detective, he is determined, whatever the consequences, to unmask the man he has nicknamed the weasel, the prime suspect for a spate of killings that Cross has been forbidden to investigate.

(P)1999 Time Warner AudioBooks (Packaging Elements Only), A Division of Time Warner Trade Publishing©1999 James Patterson Contemporary Fiction Crime Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Murder Suspense Thriller & Suspense

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The story is good but feels a little rushed, I love the Alex Cross books and have read them all. The readers are a little OTT, and the background music is terrible! really frustrating and totally unnecessary, and makes it very dated.

Terrible background music!

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Great performances from all especially the actor portraying the villains perspective. Really enjoyed this one, probably the best installment of the cross series, looking forward to ROSES ARE RED.

Fantastic performances all round

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I’m obsessed with this series and eager await my monthly token to drop so that I can devour the next thriller in the tale… but this one was awful. Firstly, it’s so much shorter than the others- Alex Cross lovers like me feel like we didn’t get our money’s worth! I also feel like the antagonists were underdeveloped, probably from the shorter length- I definitely didn’t visualise them in the way I’ve lived alongside Sanjee, Casanova, Mr Smith and co. But, most offensively, the inclusion of music, sounds and background effects was so unnecessary. The books are so dramatic that the words create the theatre- no need for this immature inclusion. Perhaps it was a compensation for the slimmer read? A way to enhance the experience in lieu of word-devised imagery? I’m not sure. But I’m sad.

Why the sound effects?!!!

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Another gruesome Alex Cross adventure that zips along at quite a pace. So much so, that I found myself wondering if I'd missed an entire book when I realised that the denouement from Cat and Mouse wasn't being mentioned. I shouldn't have worried as it jumps into the story about a third of the way through.
Keith David is a wonderful narrator and is ably assisted by Roger Rees and one other whose name I've yet to find. The different voices make for pleasant side-steps in the narrative. The musical accompaniment was unnecessary, I thought. The narrative and performances are more than enough to set mood and tone.
It's another solid thriller from James Patterson, in a series I'm really enjoying.

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Story & performance- really enjoyed. However, the introduction of background music now & again to induce the mood was rather off putting and slightly corny & old fashioned… which coming from a nearly 70 year old says a lot. I hope they don’t continue this theme through the rest of the series 😬

Another great Alex Cross story

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