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Overview

The memorable story begun in When the Wind Blows continues in this thrilling novel, and it's one that really soars! Frannie O'Neil, a Colorado veterinarian, knows a terrible secret that will change the history of the world. Kit Harrison, an FBI agent under suspension has seen things that no one in his right mind would believe. A twelve-year-old girl named Max and five other incredible children have powers we can only dream of. These children can fly. And the only place they will be save is the Lake House. Or so they believe...

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When the Wind Blows (1998), to which this is a sequel, has been Patterson's "most successful novel around the world," according to an author's note. That novel, about children genetically engineered to fly, also thrilled most critics. This one won't, despite some charms, and the reason manifests itself in the three paragraphs-paragraphs, mind-that begin chapter 41: "They were elated to be together again-the flock! The tribe! The family!" Patterson tends toward shorthand writing, and generally it works in his favor, but the problem here is that exclamation points do not engender deep emotions within readers! Nor do italics. And the novel is strewn with both, as well as with too much dumbed-down prose. The plot isn't much to boast about, either. In the original, Max the flying bird-girl and her "siblings" were menaced by the mad scientists who ran the vile laboratory known as "the School," but were helped in escaping by erstwhile narrator Frannie O'Neill, a veterinarian, and Kit Brennan, an FBI agent. Here, Max and her five siblings are menaced by the mad scientist who runs the vile laboratory known as "the Hospital" but are helped by erstwhile narrator Frannie and Kit. So what's new? Not much, other than a few neat touches (for instance, the villain, Dr. Ethan Kane, is addicted to M&Ms) and-in by far the best section of the novel, not coincidentally one in which Patterson slows down-a truly moving description of how Max and the oldest male bird-child mate. The rest is an extended hunt and chase, as Kane goes after Max and her siblings in a medical conspiracy so outrageously unbelievable that readers will blink in wonder. The pages move like the wind that lifts Max's wings, of course, but Patterson can, and has, done far better than this. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Frannie and Kit-a veterinarian and an FBI agent, respectively-rescue six very unusual children from an illegal genetic engineering facility called "The School." Although the kids all have biological parents, Frannie and Kit seek to be named their legal guardians. They know the children need to be protected from further harm, while learning to live with their unusual physical condition: all six have wings and can fly. Only Maxie, the oldest child, knows that there is another lab, called "The Hospital." There, Dr. Ethan Kane is harvesting organs of unwitting donors to create a master race who will dominate the world. When the doctor comes looking for the children, Frannie and Kit and the kids "take flight." Patterson (The Jester) leaves something to be desired in this novel: the characters are flat and the dialog banal. The outcome is predictable, and loose ends abound. Though well read by Hope Davis and Stephen Lang, this program is not recommended.-Joanna M. Burkhardt, Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Univ. of Rhode Island, Providence Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446615143
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 5/28/2004
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • Sales rank: 68,808
  • Product dimensions: 6.78 (w) x 4.06 (h) x 1.11 (d)

Meet the Author

James Patterson
James Patterson
Not making any bones about his bid for success, James Patterson once declared he wanted to be known as “the king of the page-turners.” While that may seem like a pretty grand ambition, Patterson is as worthy of that title as any author working today.

Biography

James Patterson had been working as a very successful advertising copywriter when he decided to put his Masters degree in English to a somewhat different use. Inspired by bestselling hair-raising thrillers like The Day of the Jackal and The Exorcist, Patterson went to work on his first novel. Published in 1976, The Thomas Berryman Number established him as a writer of tightly constructed mysteries that move forward with the velocity of a bullet. For his startling debut, Patterson was awarded the prestigious Edgar Award for Best First Mystery Novel—an auspicious beginning to one of the most successful careers in publishing.

A string of gripping standalone mysteries followed, but it was the 1992 release of Along Came a Spider that elevated Patterson to superstar status. Introducing Alex Cross, a brilliant black police detective/forensic psychologist, the novel was the first installment in a series of bestselling thrillers that has proved to be a cash cow for the author and his publisher.

Examining Patterson's track record, it's obvious that he believes one good series deserves another…maybe even a third! In 2001, he debuted the Women's Murder Club with 1st to Die, a fast-paced thriller featuring four female crime fighters living in San Francisco—a homicide detective, a medical examiner, an assistant D.A., and a cub reporter. The successful series has continued with other numerically titled installments. Then, spinning off a set of characters from a previous novel (1998's When the Wind Blows), in 2005 he published Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. Featuring a "flock" of genetically engineered flying children, the novel was a huge hit, especially with teen readers, and spawned a series of vastly popular fantasy adventures.

In addition to continuing his bestselling literary franchises, Patterson has also found time to co-author thrillers with other writers—including Peter de Jonge, Andrew Gross, Maxine Paetro, and Howard Roughan—and has even ventured into romance (Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, Sam's Letters to Jennifer) and children's literature (santaKid). Writing at an astonishing pace, this prolific author has turned himself into a one-man publishing juggernaut, fulfilling his clearly stated ambition to become "the king of the page-turners."

Good To Know

Patterson's Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas was inspired by a diary his wife kept that tracked the development of their toddler son.

Two of Patterson's Alex Cross mysteries (Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls) have been turned into films starring Morgan Freeman; in 2007, a weekly television series premiered, based on the bestselling Women's Murder Club novels.

    1. Hometown:
      Palm Beach, Florida
    1. Date of Birth:
      March 22, 1947
    2. Place of Birth:
      Newburgh, New York
    1. Education:
      B.A., Manhattan College, 1969; M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1971
    2. Website:
      http://www.jamespatterson.com

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The Lake House

By James Patterson

Warner Books

Copyright © 2003 James Patterson
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0-446-61514-5

Prologue

RESURRECTION

The Hospital, somewhere in Maryland

At about eleven in the evening, Dr. Ethan Kane trudged down the gray-and-blue-painted corridor toward a private elevator. His mind was filled with images of death and suffering, but also progress, great progress that would change the world.

A young and quite homely scrub nurse rounded the corner of the passageway and nodded her head deferentially as she approached him. She had a crush on Dr. Kane, and she wasn't the only one.

"Doctor," she said, "you're still working."

"Esther, you go home, now. Please," Ethan Kane said, pretending to be solicitous and caring, which couldn't have been further from the truth. He considered the nurse inferior in every way, including the fact that she was female.

He was also exhausted from a surgical marathon: five major operations in a day. The elevator car finally arrived, the doors slid open, and he stepped inside.

"Good night, Esther," he said, and showed the nurse a lot of very white teeth, but no genuine warmth, because there was none to show.

He straightened his tall body and wearily passed his hand over his longish blond hair, cleaned his wire-rimmed glasses on the tail of his lab coat, then rubbed his eyes before putting his glasses back on as hedescended to the subbasement level.

One more thing to check on ... always one more thing to do.

He walked half a dozen quick steps to a thick steel door and pushed it open with the palm of his hand.

He entered the dark and chilly atmosphere of a basement storage room. A pungent odor struck him.

There, lying on a double row of gurneys, were six naked bodies. Four men, two women, all in their late teens and early twenties. Each was brain-dead, each as good as gone, but each had served a worthy cause, a higher purpose. The plastic bracelets on their wrists said DONOR.

"You're making the world a better place," Kane whispered as he passed the bodies. "Take comfort in that."

Dr. Kane strode to the far end of the room and pushed open another steel door, an exact duplicate of the first. This time rather than a chilly blast, he was met by a searing wave of hot air, the deafening roar of fire, and the unmistakable smell of death.

All three incinerators were going tonight. Two of his nighttime porters, their powerful workingman bodies glistening with grime and sweat, looked up as Dr. Kane entered the cinder-block chamber. The men nodded respectfully, but their eyes showed fear.

"Let's pick up the pace, gentlemen. This is taking too long," Kane called out. "Let's go, let's go! You're being paid well for this scut work. Too well."

He glanced at a naked young woman's corpse laid out on the cement floor. She was white-blond, pretty in a music-video sort of way. The porters had probably been diddling with her. That's why they were behind schedule, wasn't it?

Gurneys were shoved haphazardly into one corner, like discarded shopping carts in a supermarket parking lot. Quite a spectacle. Hellish, to be sure.

As he watched, one of the sweat-glazed minions worked a wooden paddle under a young male's body while the other swung open the heavy glass door of an oven. Together they pushed, shoved, slid the body into the fire as if it were a pizza.

The flames dampened for a moment, then as the porters locked down the door, the inferno flared again. The cremation chamber was called a "retort." Each retort burned at 3,600 degrees, and it took just over fifteen minutes to reduce a human body to nothing but ashes.

To Dr. Ethan Kane, that meant one thing: no evidence of what was happening at the Hospital. Absolutely no evidence of Resurrection.

"Pick up the pace!" he yelled again. "Burn these bodies!"

The donors.

(Continues...)


Excerpted from The Lake House by James Patterson Copyright © 2003 by James Patterson. Excerpted by permission.
All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2011

    Rytyryd

    ATTENTION: EVERYONE READ MAXIMUM RIDE NEXT IT WILL BE YOUR BEST DESITION EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 26, 2010

    I Also Recommend:

    Great easy-read novel with romance, action, and drama.

    I couldn't wait to dive into this book after reading "As the Wind Blows" and I was not disappointed. It was a thrilling and heart touching novel to conclude a great story. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 15, 2008

    Suspenseful Science Fiction

    James Patterson¿s book, The Lake House, was rather a surprise since I expected a gripping murder mystery and got a science fiction story about children with wings that could fly. Nevertheless, Patterson grabbed my attention early in the story, and by keeping the chapters short for easy reading and filling the pages with action-packed happenings and/or dialogue, he kept the story moving. While I am not a science fiction fan, the story was interesting enough to keep me reading. The resolution to the plot was a bit downsized¿an entire hospital and many workers were involved, yet, they weren¿t mentioned in the resolution¿only the man responsible. If you read this book you will be rewarded with a happy ending for the characters.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 1, 2008

    The Worst Book I've Ever Made Myself Finish

    I loved When The Wind Blows and was excited to see this sequel. Unfortunately, it's not just disappointing but outright terrible. Between continuity errors(Icarus and Oz managing to switch ages, for one), child sex(they're twelve, which Patterson tries to cover by claiming they look eighteen - funny how they aged normally most of their lives but took a huge jump in aging when Patterson needed some kiddie-lovin'), and plot points that seem to have popped up in the wrong book, this is one worth missing. Patterson has lost his touch.

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  • Posted December 21, 2011

    Exellent

    Kit and the Doc have their hands full trying to take care of the kids and stay safe.

    Great story, some fun, exitement, tears, and laughter. Another great book from Patterson.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 25, 2009

    Very disappointing!

    What was he thinking?? J.P.'s books are generally real page turners. I usually finish them in 2 evenings because I can't put them down. This book was very bazaar. I hated it.

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  • Posted May 26, 2009

    Readers pleasure

    This book begins exactly where the last one left off. I was involved form the start. James Patterson can get you so involved with his words that you see in your minds eye just what he is relaying. I can picture the "winged" children just as clear as if I was there. The best writers have that knack of drawing you in so you can't but their books down.

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  • Posted March 16, 2009

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    The Lake House

    This was an offbeat book. It was an interesting read and a little weird. I can't say that I enjoyed it as much as I have enjoyed some of James Patterson's other books. It was ok.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 8, 2009

    Best Thriller EVER!!!!!!Must read!

    This was the best book I've ever read! Non stop thrills throughout the whole book!

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  • Posted January 7, 2009

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    didn't keep my interest...

    I thought The Lake House, sequel to When the Wind Blows, was a mediocre book. The plot was kind of interesting but not all that different from When the Wind Blows. The kids, along with Frannie and Kit, are being chased again. This time, instead of being chased by people from The School, they are being chased by people from The Hospital. The thing that annoyed me most about this book, and a little with the first book as well, was the use of such corny dialogue from the kids. Overall, this wasn't a bad book, it just didn't keep my interest like When the Wind Blows.

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  • Posted December 23, 2008

    FREAKIN HORRIBLE

    OMG!!!!! i read "when the wind blows" and thought it was fantastic! but this book... horrible. James doesn't keep the same plot through the story, puts one thing then goes on and the story continues like it didn't happen. and the ending was absolutly FRIGGEN GAY. i mean my god it absolutly sucked!!!!!!!! the whole book was boring and lame

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  • Posted October 14, 2008

    The Extraordinary Six

    Ever thought about having wings, super strength or having people want to be you? The book The Lake House has to do with all. The author of this book is James Patterson. James Patterson usually rights about crime novels but the lake house is a classic. Flying kids and cloning kids what is there not to read.
    This book, The Lake House tells the story of six extraordinary kids, undergoing power to fly after some genetic engineering merged their DNA with DNA a bird would have. These kids have to fight for there lives against scientists who would like to clone them for there own. They have the help of frannie, a veterinarian, and kit, a FBI agent. in the story max and her sibling¿s escape from a mad laboratory called the hospital. Max flies into Frannie O¿Neill¿s store and frannie takes her in and the others in as her own kids.
    When max and the others got there max was all cut up, luckily Fannies¿ knew just what to do. After frannie gets max cleaned up she takes them to find out who there mothers are, which ends her up in court for the kids. As frannie and the parents are going to court the kids are devastated because they¿ve never seen there parents before and just like birds once they open there eyes on someone they instantly become there mother and that¿s what they see frannie and kit as. Max and the siblings go up to the top of the courthouse and start to fly because they only feel save when they flying together or as a family and ass things are going they don¿t think they will be a family anymore.
    The court hearing got over and the judge told frannie and kit that since the kids aren¿t biologically there¿s they can¿t have them. The flock got separated into different towns and that¿s when all the trouble started to happen
    James Patterson really made me like his books more. And I think you would like it too.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 13, 2008

    The high fligher

    i think that this book is the best novel ever

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 1, 2008

    Excellent book

    I enjoyed this book very much! I'm so happy for Max and her 'family' this book is a page turner. I am currently reading Maximum Ride: The Angel experiment and I'm kinda mad that it doesn't continue with the same group of kids but the suspense is still there

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 10, 2008

    very good

    Befor I read the first book When The Wind Blows, I really didn't think I would like the book, it sounded kind of strange. But it was real interesting , I read it in about 2 days. This is the sequel and it is also very good. I really love all of the charaters, the (kids) are just so cute. If you like to read about medical experiments and things that might be possible in the future (or not) , go ahead and read this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 3, 2007

    The Lake House: One Turkey That Does Not Fly.

    Possibly one of the worst books I've ever read!!! In fact it was so bad I could not put it down as the steadily deteriorating plot,wonderfully unbelievable characters and banal use of language kept me in stitches!!! Could someone please send me Patterson's address so I can post him a thersaurus!!! It might also be an idea to sneak up to his computer and remove the 'exclamation mark' key!!! If an author can't write a sentence using words to express surprise and shock then an exclamation mark is not really going to help much!!!! Still, you have to admire the guys guts in publishing the Lake House - he had a dream to cash in with this sequel no matter what the personal cost. I think part of the problem was that Patterson was not really sure who his target auidence was going to be - teenagers or adults - and so the novel flipflops between gushing adolescent sentimentality and daytime TV melodrama. Patterson wanted to write 'page turners' but with 'The Lake House' he has managed a 'page burner'.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 14, 2007

    What I want to know.

    Ok I liked the end of the last book. But I want to know what is going to happen to Max and the others now? How can it end like that. I would really like to know if James Patterson is going to finnish.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 24, 2007

    Not his best work

    This was not one of James Patterson's greatest work. It wasn't exciting and it didn't keep you on the edge of your seat. I also didn't like the ending to the story. This book didn't live up to the it's expectations unlike the Maximum Ride series

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 20, 2007

    Just Average

    The Lake House is the sequel to When the Wind Blows also written by James Patterson. It was an okay book, kind of in the middle-ish. The book was very predictable at the end, but at the beginning it was very interesting it kept you from wanting to stop. The Lake House was an okay book, it wasn¿t horrible, but it wasn¿t great. It had a lot of superficial things that I didn¿t really care for. For instance, the kids were birds and really strong. I don¿t really care for those kinds of things. I am more of a realistic kind of person. So if you like supernatural and humans being mutated into animals, you will enjoy this book. It starts off with six kids who can fly and are very strong. They were taken away at birth and had tons of tests done on them. They were then mutated in a bad, evil place, known as the The School. The School was run by an evil doctor. The evil doctor cloned himself and was working on cloning other things too. After they had escaped The School, the six children met up with two people known as Frannie and Kit. Frannie was a veterinarian so she liked the fact that the kids were half-bird/half-human, and Kit was an FBI agent. Frannie and Kit took care of the children because the kids had no place to go. But then their real parents found out that they were alive and had escaped the The School and wanted their children back. They decided that they would split the children up three would go and live with their real parents while the other three went and lived with Frannie and Kit. That didn¿t turn out so well. The kids became angry and mad, so they had to go to court over the issues. The court granted custody to the real parents. The kids ran away from their parents to go and live with Frannie and Kit. But soon they had found themselves right back in the hands of the evil doctor, who had come in and taken the kids away from Frannie and Kit if you want to know the ending you should buy this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 18, 2006

    My favorite book

    I have read this book 3 times. Its just amazing and it never gets old. I have recommended this book to so many people and they also agree with me. I rarely read books on my spare time, but with this one, I didnt want to put it down. I highly recommend this book!

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