Criss Cross: (Alex Cross 27)

Sensationally plotted, it leaps off the page and grabs you by the throat' DAILY MAIL'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__________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCould a ghost from his past take everything away from Alex Cross?Only hours after witnessing the execution of a killer he helped put behind bars, Alex Cross is called to the scene of a copycat murder.

A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse: 'You messed up big time, Dr.

Cross.'Was an innocent man just put to death? As the executed convict's family launch a vicious campaign against Cross, his abilities as a detective are called into question.The enigmatic 'M' lures Cross out of Washington, DC to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details that conjure up decades-old cases and Cross family secrets.Details that make it clear M is planning to destroy much more than Cross's reputation.