![]() ![]() His books have sold in excess of 375 million copies worldwide. Other authors have done better with similar material. JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. What they find leads to the direct involvement of the American president, as well as a cardinal who’s “the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church in the United States.” The implausible plot suffers from a lack of characterization and suspense. Meanwhile, psychologist Martha Chan is dragooned by the military to join a team of experts including a biologist, a climatologist, and an astrophysicist to determine what flattened part of the nearby forest and crushed all living things in that area. Then eight-year-old Sophie starts bleeding, curses her 16-year-old sibling, and turns violent. When a sudden, horribly painful noise disrupts the girls while they are hunting rabbits, their parents lock them in a cellar for protection. Sisters Tennant and Sophie Riggin live with their parents in a survivalist community near Oregon’s Mount Hood. ![]() Bestseller Patterson and Barker follow 2020’s The Coast-to-Coast Murders with a tired variation on a familiar theme-a baffling phenomenon devastates a community, triggering a massive government response to contain the truth and limit the loss of life. ![]()
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