Reception
The novel has received a mostly negative response, and maintains a lowly 2.5 rating (out of a possible five) on Amazon.com. Several critics have attacked the story's graphic scenes of violence and torture, and also claiming that the prose style is of a very low standard. While most negative, not all reception was negative, FantasticFiction.com has stated that Cross Country " The most heart-stopping, speed-charged, electrifying Alex Cross thriller yet." BestsellrrsWorld also expressed that: "Intense, suspensful, emotionally charged. . . One of Paterson's best novels to date." The book has hit the #1 New York Times Bestseller for many weeks, but was later outbeaten; it also managed to score a #1 on both Publisher and Entertaintment Weekly, though it got a #2 at the Wall Street Journal.
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“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)