Rating: 
Summary: Midnight club excellent addition to any book club
Review: This book is just as good as the Alex Cross series and has one of the best villains ever created. The basic plot is that there is one organisation that every mafia, crime and drug organisation is controlled by. The killer in this book is the head of this organisation.The detective in The Midnight Club is also an interesting character being that he is confined to a wheel chair. A lot of reviews seem to dislike this book but I think it is sensational. For those who have never read a Patterson novel it is also great as you do not have to be familiar with any other books to fully appreciate the characters. For those who have read them this is a different detective to follow other than Alex Cross and the Women's Murder Club.
Rating: 
Summary: That Darn Suspension of Disbelief
Review: The Midnight Club is a book with interesting characters, a nice premise and plenty of action...unfortunately it just doesn't work. These fine attributes are woven together in a plot that fails the dreaded test of believability. The arch-enemy of the hero is so cartoonish, so archetypal that you cannot suspend your disbelief and soon find yourself guessing (correctly) what is going to happen next. When this is combined with the contrived love story, the disappointing ending and the overused "saving the damsel in distress" convention, the book just plain flops. Patterson has written other works worth reading, I suggest staying with Along Came A Spider or Jack and Jill if you are interesting in reading this author, but avoid this particular offering.
| 
