I consider myself a huge Patterson fan, however, after reading Cradle and All, I am losing faith. Regretfully, I didn't read these reviews until AFTER reading the book, or I wouldn't have wasted my time. On a more positive note, I am glad to see that this was a reworking of an earlier novel. It actually gives me hope that the next Alex Cross novel will be back up to par. I don't know what Patterson was thinking, between this one and When The Wind Blows, was he trying to be Dean Koontz or something? Even if his future books have his traditional 'nursery rhyme' titles, if they are not about Cross, and if the chapters are not more involved than two pages, I'm not going to bother.