"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the games' organizing committee and his mistress have been killed. It is clear that it wasn't a crime of passion, but one of precise calculation and execution. Newspaper reporter Karen Pope receives a letter from a person who calls himself Cronus claiming responsibility for the murders. He also proclaims that he will restore the Olympics to their ancient glory and will destroy all who have corrupted the games with lies, cheating, and greed."This is my first Patterson book and it was quick, easy to read, and plenty of action. It kept my attention enough, but there was not much depth to the plot nor the characters. In fact the twins seemed like caricatures of children, meaning they acted and talked like what someone who does not spend much time around kids think little kids sound like. (I hope that sentence made sense.?). The story was okay, I kept thinking, who really cares about the "Sanctity of Olympics" so much that they would commit terrorist acts to correct it?
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