I, Alex Cross James Patterson | ISBN : 0-316-01878-3

I, Alex Cross

Author: James Patterson

Publisher: Little Brown & Company

Publication Date: 16 November, 2009

ISBN: 9780316018784

Pages: 400

Subjects: Mystery, General, Suspense

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-0-316-01878-4 Trade Cloth, 978-0-316-12043-2 Trade Cloth, 978-0-316-03617-7 Trade Cloth, 978-0-316-04373-1 E-Book - Open Ebook; EPUB, 978-0-316-07190-1

Description:

You can't run

Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.

You can't hide

The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible,ifyou have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down some very important, very protected, very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain--they will doanythingto keep their secrets safe.

Alex Cross is your only hope to stay alive

As Alex closes in on the killer, he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable--a revelation that could rock the entire world. With the unstoppable action, unforeseeable twists, and edge-of-your-seat suspense that only a James Patterson thriller delivers,I, Alex Crossis the master of suspense at his sharpest and best.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: PW Annex Reviews

Review Date: 2009-12-07

Bestseller Patterson offers nothing new on a theme he himself has already done to death in his 16th novel featuring detective Alex Cross (after Cross Country), in which Cross takes on yet another barbaric serial killer, this one known as Zeus. Word that an estranged 24-year-old niece, Caroline Cross, has been murdered disturbs Cross's birthday party. To make that horror even worse, the killer fed Caroline's body through a wood chipper. Cross soon discovers that Caroline supported herself as a high-price escort for Washington, D.C.'s elite, and that other women who served similar clients have turned up missing. Cross's investigation soon attracts the attention of the feds, and he concludes that Zeus is better connected than most of the psychopaths he's brought to justice. A subplot centering on a health threat to another member of Cross's family adds padding. Readers expecting the killer to be identified through insightful profiling will be disappointed. (Nov.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.