I don't know how Mr. Patterson's Cross series is written, but from reading his other books I found Trial to be written in a similar, yet different way. Patterson keeps his short chapters, which keeps the reader turning he pages, but the writing is a bit more indepth and detailed.
In Alex Cross's Trial, we meet Ben Corbitt, a lawyer in the early 1900's in Washington DC. After losing a trial, he's summoned to the White House by President Teddy Roosevelt. Mr. President would like Ben to travel to his small home town in Mississippi and see if there any of the rumors about the KKK performing multiple lynchings is true. Ben can't refuse and he does travel back home to Eudora, Mississippi, where he first visits his father, a man he hasn't seen in six years.
After that ten minutes is over, ha! Ben meets with Abraham Cross and his granddaughter Moody. From what I read, Moody is a prominent character in the Cross series. But with their help, Ben searches to find who is really the power behind the lynchings and stop them. Set in a time where colored folks were still thought inferior, the message is tragic yet real.
Alex Cross's Trial is the story Alex Cross from his grandmother and a story he thought to pass to his own children. So, he wrote the book, TRIAL, and thus, we have Alex Cross's Trial. A great story of murder, passion, betrayal and history. Bravo Mr. Patterson!!
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