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Bestseller Patterson's 14th Alex Cross thriller doesn't follow up on the plot threads left dangling in 2007's Double Cross concerning still-on-the-loose serial killer Kyle Craig. Instead, Cross, a Washington, D.C., police detective, takes on a very different quarrya human monster known as the Tiger with ties to the African underworld. When the Tiger and his teenage thugs butcher writer Ellie Cox, her husband and children in their Georgetown home, Cross is devastated because Ellie had been his girlfriend in college. The Cox family massacre proves to be just the first in a series. Cross pursues the Tiger to Nigeria, where the profiler finds himself at the mercy of corrupt government officials who may be working with the Tiger. Spending less time than usual exploring his villains psychological backstory, Patterson delivers an atypical tale of James Bondstyle revenge. Craig's brief cameo toward the end suggests the series will resume its usual path in the next book. (Nov. 17)
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[Cross Country] opens with one of the most chilling murder scenes I've read in a long time ... High-octane stuff Daily Express It was absolutely fantastic ... Cross Country has an amazing sense of speed, there's a really brilliant tension in the plot ... You're just completely engrossed in it from start to finish ... The story is unrelentingly exciting. The Simon Mayo show, BBC Radio 5 Live
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### From Publishers Weekly Bestseller Patterson's 14th Alex Cross thriller doesn't follow up on the plot threads left dangling in 2007's _Double Cross_ concerning still-on-the-loose serial killer Kyle Craig. Instead, Cross, a Washington, D.C., police detective, takes on a very different quarryβa hu
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### From Publishers Weekly Bestseller Patterson's 14th Alex Cross thriller doesn't follow up on the plot threads left dangling in 2007's *Double Cross* concerning still-on-the-loose serial killer Kyle Craig. Instead, Cross, a Washington, D.C., police detective, takes on a very different quarrya hum
SUMMARY: Detective Alex Cross pursues the most ruthless killer he's ever encountered-to a land of sheer terror and back. It's the worst crime scene Alex Cross has ever seen, and then more killings, each one more ruthless than the last, quickly follow. After one death comes terrifyingly close to ho