Anyone who has read James Patterson's earlier books knows he is a fantastic author, so what happened here? It seems that Mr. Patterson was in a terrific rush to give us something new and wrote this in a frantic rush to satisfy our craving for a new book. The result was disappointing. Few children, no matter how exceptionally brilliant and mature for their years, think and speak like Alex's daughter. The family scenarios, and the entire book for that matter, reminded me of little more than an over-dramatic soap opera. From the abduction of Christine to the final ending, the complete episode was just too weak, far-fetched and lacked substance.Mr. Patterson is a fantastic author. Anyone who has read his earlier books, "Along Came a Spider," "Jack and Jill," and "Kiss the Girls," for example, knows how talented he truly is, but this book showed very little of the creative writing of the James Patterson we have come to know and love.