Alex Cross has left the Washington, D.C., police department
behind and is settling nicely into a private therapy
practice. He enjoys time with his children. He's even
started dating a police detective named Brianna Stone. All
is well.
Four years ago, Kyle Craig, a then-FBI agent and friend of
Alex's, was sentenced to life in a maximum-security prison
for committing over 10 murders. Craig vowed that he would
one day confront the judge who sentenced him, and Alex
Cross, who helped put him behind bars. Alex hopes that
Craig, known as the Mastermind, will never fulfill this
promise.
Someone in D.C. has murdered a well-known author, leaving
clues for the police. Detective Stone takes the case; Alex
rides with her to the scene. He can't help but be drawn in
by the murder. His instincts kick in and before he knows
it, he's helping his girlfriend try to solve the case. The
killer strikes again, leaving the same clues and a message
for Alex. The killer loves an audience. He's so bold, he
sets up a website and invites Alex to try to solve the
case. As each murder draws Alex further into police work,
he learns that Craig has escaped the supposedly inescapable
prison and is leaving dead bodies along his path back to
D.C.
Alex finds himself in the middle of two killers who want
him dead. The Audience Killer, as he's become known, thinks
himself smarter at killing than Craig. Craig is flattered,
but only for so long before the need to show the other just
how killing should be done puts Alex in the middle of a
cross.
James Patterson, with his usual expertise, invites
us back into Alex Cross' life. I thoroughly enjoy Cross'
calm personality and the methods he uses to solve cases.
The character delivery is smooth and engaging; the dialogue
is to the point and moves forward toward an exciting
ending. DOUBLE CROSS will be another bestseller.
Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a
routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself
back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind
like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington
D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like
nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective
Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case
becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex
knows: the killer adores an audience. As victims are made
into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing a media
hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man he's after
is a genius of terror--and he's after fame. The killer has
the whole city by its strings--and he'll stop at nothing
to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C.
has ever seen.
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