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Jack brings int he help of his grandfather, a private eye with who he starts to build a relationship, and a small group of locals to try and prove that Peter was in fact murdered and that there is a major cover-up with a surprising and disturbing sexual twist. But if Patterson fails to completely convince, he certainly doesn't fail to thrill, and readers will be turning the pages until the end. Since winning the Edgar™ Award for Best First Novel with The Thomas Berryman Number, his books have sold in excess of 300 million copies worldwide and he has been the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the past eight years in a row. Rich families on Montauk getting away with murder, sadistic pleasures among the rich and famous, and all at the expense of a young boy make this story.

Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. As he greets his family, his kid brother Peter lies stretched out on a steel gurney, battered, bruised - dead. Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.I can't believe it took me so long to read this book, I started loving to read late in life only about 2 years ago so I am very behind! Read how Jack and his crew of friends, the average working class, confront the wealthy and uncover secrets that will shock you and leave you perplex. Jack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton.

Not to fear: Just because megaselling Patterson has teamed up once more with journalist collaborator de Jonge ( Miracle on the 17th Green, 1996) doesn’t make the pace of this slick, ludicrous thriller any slower, the puppets any more complex, or the sentences any longer. Maybe it's because I haven't read a James Patterson book in a while, or maybe it's Peter De Jonge's influence (I haven't read anything by him before), but this story didn't impress me the way most of Patterson's novels -- especially the Alex Cross stories -- have.The second that Columbia law student Jack Mullen steps down from the train at East Hampton, he knows that something is very wrong. Jack feels his brother could never have drowned because he was a strong swimmer and knew the Atlantic since childhood. When a young parking attendent at a posh private party is found dead on the beach, there is a strong effort by powerful people to sweep everything under the rug. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).

Jack knows his brother and knows this couldn’t be an accident; someone must have wanted his brother dead. I know it left me cheering along as Jack stuck it to those who had caused him and his family (among others) so much harm. The Beach House* is an interesting story about how the court and the rich cornering a man when he'll have no choice but to fight back like a feral animal.

In the words of that old Irishman Benjamin Franklin, 'We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we will hang separately. It's not that Patterson's thriller breaks a lot of ground in the suspense/thriller literary genre, in fact opting for a simple storyline touching on themes of money as power and the ease the rich have in covering up their dirty deeds.



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