My GOD, this book was awful. A friend of mind told me that these books were being made into a movie and outlined the premise, and (ugh) it didn't sound so bad - I enjoy random "experiment/people escape from the lab, try to make it in the real world" random fiction. After reading 3/4 of the book, I have to wonder if James Patterson is even literate, much less capable of producing decent fiction. I hate buying books and not finishing them, but I can't even think of a REASON to care about making it to the end. The characters are all essentially the same (dull and undeveloped) person, with little nervous tics and random handicaps to intended to make them seem distinct - but instead, making the act of trying to empathize with them vaguely nauseating.NOT recommended under any circumstances, unless you're looking for something to just kill a couple of brain cells and punish you for your sins.