Step on a Crack?

This book is a crime/mystery novel by James Patterson. Detective Mike Bennett is the man of the NYPD. He's their go to guy for Homicides, but his world is turned upside down after First Lady Caroline Hopkin's assassination. Her funeral is being held in St. Patty's cathedral in New York and is in the middle of the procession when it is held up. Hijackers hold hundreds of people hostage within the cathedral including a former president, and many celebrities. "Jack" the main bad guy on the inside is an arrogant but careful man. Almost all of the problems he encounters are pre-thought out and he has a plan in place for all of them. Most of this planning is on account of his head accomplice, the "Neat Man," a guy who is on the outside and helps them by warning them of cop movement. They hold up the scheme and eventually get away, raking in anywhere from 2 to 3 million dollars from each rich, celebrity hostage. The sum is around 70 million dollars. They only lose a couple people on the way, which is where they get caught. Although they had been extremely careful, burning off their fingerprints, cutting off identifiable parts on their dead companions, and planning every detail, the criminals don't get away with it. On one of their dead companions, the forensic scientists uses acid to take off the first layer of dead skin. This enables him to get a partial print off the under layer and identify them with a twist at the end. I wont ruin the ending but after you read it you'll understand the overlying message of the book. The message being that those who are closes to you are the most dangerous. Your friends and family are the ones who know the most about you and can hurt you the worst if they would betray you. They know, like the criminals, how you function because they've been around you the most and have grown close to you. Luckily mmost of them would never do anyting to hurt their own family but if it were to happen they could do the worst damage.

I've also started Catching Fire and it is gripping so far. I'm interested to see how things turn out with Katniss and how she will handle her inevitable fate. It seems, so far, that eating the raspberries, which really was not eating them, has been a fait accompli for her, her family, and her friends.