Just when Alex Cross's life is calming down, he is drawn back into the game to confront a criminal mastermind like no other. The elaborate murders that have stunned Washington, DC, are the wildest that Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna
FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family in Disneyland when he gets a call from the director. A top actress has been shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail recounting the murder in shocking detail, signed Mary Smith." "The authorities fear this is only the beginning. More killings follow, and more e-mails arrive immediately after. Mary Smith is targeting Hollywood stars and power brokers, and she is getting better every time." "Right from the start, this case is like nothing Alex has ever confronted before. Could this be the plan of an obsessed fan or a spumed actor, or is it part of something much more terrifying? And how could a woman be capable of these vicious crimes?" People make enemies easily in Hollywood. To track down a merciless killer, Alex must navigate a world where the stars and players sip San Pellegrino at the Ivy as hopefuls hover around studio gates armed with 8 x 10 glossies. Everyone is desperate for a close-up, but this is one fan Hollywood could do without. Members of the A-list fear they're next on Mary's list, and the case catapults into blockbuster proportions as Cross and the LAPD scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update.
Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, D.C., Police Department when an unknown man gunned down his wife in front of him. But his need for vengeance was placed on hold as he raised his children himself. Years later, Alex leaves the FBI to work as a full-time psychologist. His life finally feels like it's in order-until Cross's former partner, John Sampson, gives him a chilling phone call. Sampson is tracking a Georgetown serial rapist whose brutal modus operandi includes threatening his victims with terrifying photos. Now Cross and Sampson need the help of the rape victims to stop the predator, but the women refuse to talk. When the case triggers a connection to his wife's death, Alex may finally have a chance to catch the murderer. Is this a chance for justice at long last? Or the culminating scene in his own deadly obsession? From the man USA Today has called the "master of the genre," CROSS is the high-velocity thriller James Patterson's fans have waited years to read.
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Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has everencountered—a predator known only as the Wolf.
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleaguesstymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broaddaylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not beingtaken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And itlooks like a shadowy figure known as the Wolf—a master criminal whohas brought a new reign of terror to organized crime—is behind thisbusiness in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves.
Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows impatientwith the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lonewolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf andtry to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive.
As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. Hisex-fiancée, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life—andnot for the reasons Alex might have hoped.
With rollercoaster twists and whiplash surprises, this is another brilliantly paced novel from America's best-selling thriller writer.
Alex Cross returns in the most harrowing case of his career -- one that risks the life of his closest friend and partner, John Sampson. Alex Cross is on his way to resign from the Washington Police Force when his partner and oldest friend, John Sampson, knocks on the door, desperate. Sampson's best friend has been framed for murders he didn't commit. Cross is their only hope. But there's a problem -- his friend is subject to the code, conduct, and law of an insular world that plays by its own rules: the United States Army. Trapped in a world of lies, murder, sex, and corruption thick enough to reverse their very notions of guilt and innocence, Cross and Sampson end up in a deadly showdown against enemies more formidable than they've ever faced. And only one man will walk away.
Terrorists have seized the world's largest cities. London, Washington D.C., New York, and Frankfurt will be destroyed, unless their demands are met-and their demands are impossible. After a city in the western United States is fire bombed-a practice run-Alex Cross knows that it is only a matter of time before the bombers' threats to the other cities are brutally executed. Heading up the investigation by the FBI, CIA, and Interpol, Alex Cross is stunned when surveillance photos show Geoffrey Shafer, the Weasel, near one of the bombing sites. He senses the presence of the Wolf as well, the most vicious predator he has ever battled. With millions of lives in the balance, Cross has to see if the most powerful law enforcement agencies in the world can stay ahead of these two men's cunning. Once more James Patterson fires off a tight, tense, terrifying thriller that will leave fans clamoring for more in the tenth addition to the series that "remains Patterson's finest." (Publishers Weekly)
