CROSS OUT - ALEX CROSS

The thirty-first instalment in James Patterson''s globally bestselling series Alex Cross, fresh from a brush with death himself, is on the trail of the Dead Hours Killer.

Detectives Cross and Sampson are tracking a serial killer who''s fatally ambushing young men in the ''Dead Hours'' murders. They don''t hear the machine gun fire. At first.

''Drop whatever you''re doing, Dr. Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,'' DC Metro Police dispatch says. ''A plane just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto.'' The weapon that took down the plane is a remote-controlled Vietnam-War-era machine gun. The list of those who possess the training and expertise to operate the stolen, .50-caliber weapon is short. And time runs even shorter.

As Cross and Sampson race to prevent another mass murder, their fearsomely armed opponent once again looks skyward.

PRAISE FOR THE ALEX CROSS SERIES ''Patterson never, and I mean never, disappoints'' USA Today ''Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn''t forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it'' Lee Child ''Alex Cross is a legend'' Harlan Coben ''Alex Cross ... only gets better and better'' Lisa Scottoline ''I wrote, "Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I''ve come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season''s no. 1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name." A household name, indeed'' Nelson DeMille ''[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages'' Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Lire la suite Fermer