The Sixth Target

The Sixth Target by James Patterson was a quick and easy read, but also a good one. It follows three cases worked by a homicide detective in San Francisco, Detective Sergeant Boxer. The first is the case of a mentally disturbed man who randomly murders five people on a ferry. Then, there was a rash of kidnapping/murders. Finally, there were multiple homicides in a single apartment building. I liked the fact that there were multiple cases going on at once, as oppose to just a single ongoing case. It was more interesting and more realistic to see numerous cases at once. There was even a hostage situation at the end of the book (when the kidnappers were being apprehended) that was more realistic then most television shows-the second the women holding the hostage popped her head out long enough, she was stopped by a sniper bullet. That's the cold, hard truth.