The person who gave me this book said it was "better than Beach Road". I think Beach Road is one of the best books Patterson's ever written so I had to dive right into this one. I think it took less than 6 days to read, it was interesting, a good book but alas, no Beach Road (nothing ever is as far as I'm concerned) I'm not saying don't read it, after all it held my attention and I couldn't put it down, I'd probably have more positive things to say had a particular someone not put the bug in my ear about Beach Road in the first place.