Cross the line by James Patterson

As i mentioned before, i was on a spree to finish all of the Alex cross series a while back and was ploughing through the whole series. Of the 34 books and counting, i managed to come till the 24th and more than fatigue it was terribly repetitive. Right from the titles, most of which are the starting lines of famous rhymes, to the villains whom most of the time happen to be patients or stalkers of Alex cross, to the way in which they get killed/captured only to return back in another book, or copy cats of the famous villains. But this book felt slightly different as the beginning itself gave hints that this might be more on vigilantism. A bike driver, capable of going at more than 100mph and still shoot without missing the target on an equally fast moving vehicle, starts of the novel by killing some one for violating speed limit, by violating the speed limit even more than the victim to shoot them. There are spate of murders, even by the count mentioned, grossing more than 50 in body count across several instances, where drug dealers and human traffickers are killed in cold blood by a vigilante group who call themselves as Regulators. They target high value and dangerous criminal gangs and eliminate them. Like every good cop and police character, who cannot allow bad guys to be killed like that, Cross and rest of the cops stake out for the gang and slowly manage to encircle them, with surprise of surprise, a person known to them being the main leader!! And in the climax fight, like many other novels before which unfortunately or fortunately, not read by the villain, Cross suffers near fatal wounds, key word being near, and yet manage to kill the villain. Poor villain. Had he read the previous books, he would've known that while his wives can get killed left right and center, by the sheer benefit of having the novel series named after him, Cross manages to survive every attack and wound. No wonder his villains feel pissed off and come back time and again to see if they can get him killed. But the irony being they themselves get resurrected why not poor Cross is yet to dawn on them!!! 

For those who like racy and pacy pulp fiction, this one would be right up your leisure reading list. For the rest, add a "Do not" as prefix to the title of this one!!