As one might expect, the title of James Patterson’s new thriller is laden with irony. It foreshadows the contents of the book, which concerns an extremely busy and exceedingly dangerous 24 hours wherein the famous police psychologist is exposed to the worst actions of humanity while (most of) Washington, D.C. celebrates one of the world’s highest holy days.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS begins, fittingly enough, in a church early on Christmas Eve, where Cross is on a stakeout that has been put in place to prevent a heinous but relatively minor crime. Cross&r