TY - BOOK AU - Patterson, James, TI - Pop goes the weasel: James Patterson T2 - An Alex Cross novel SN - 0747273480 PY - 1999/// CY - London PB - Hodder Moa Beckett KW - Cross, Alex (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Crime KW - Suspense fiction N1 - The fifth Alex Cross novel N2 - 'It's all just a game, darling. I play with three other men. Their names are FAMINE, WAR and CONQUEROR. My name is DEATH. You're a very lucky girl -- I'm the best player of all.' Geoffrey Shafter: a man who never loses, he is prepared to play the game of games for the highest stakes of all. Alex Cross: senior Washington, DC, homicide detective, he is determined, whatever the consequences, to unmask the man he has nicknamed the weasel, the prime suspect for a spate of killings that Cross has been forbidden to investigate. In POP GOES THE WEASEL, James Patterson has created a formidable villain every reader will see in the shadows when the lights are out, a tender love story, a plot powered by relentless suspense and psychological thrills kicked up to an all-time high ER -