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Overview

Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved drive-bys in D.C.'s rough neighborhoods.

Years later, still haunted by his wife's death, Cross is making a bold move in his life. Now a free agent from the police and the FBI, he's set up practice as a psychologist once again. His life with Nana Mama, Damon, Jannie, and little Alex is finally getting in order. He even has a chance at a new love.

Then Cross's former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favor. He is tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown, one whose brutal modus operandi recalls a case Sampson and Cross worked together years earlier. When the case reveals a connection to Maria's death, Cross latches on for the most urgent and terrifying ride of his life.

From the man USA TODAY has called the "master of the genre," CROSS is the high-velocity thriller James Patterson and Alex Cross's fans have waited years to read - and the pinnacle of the bestselling detective series of the past two decades.

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Years have passed since psychologist Alex Cross witnessed the drive-by slaying of his wife, Maria. Since then, he has pieced together the semblance of a life with his grandmother and children, continuing his work as a high-stakes shrink. That calm routine is broken by a request from his former partner, John Sampson, to help solve a case with indirect links to Maria's murder. Alex Cross in the crosshairs; James Patterson's signature character in his most personal case.
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Forensic psychologist Alex Cross's storied career in private practice, with the FBI and as a Washington, D.C., cop has brought him into contact with all kinds of seriously disturbed killers, but his 12th outing from bestseller Patterson (after 2005's Mary, Mary) may be the ultimate in lunatic deadliness. Beginning with a flashback to the murder of Cross's wife, Maria, Patterson quickly introduces Michael Sullivan (aka the Butcher of Sligo). What follows is a frenetically paced series of brutal rapes and killings by Sullivan, once employed by the mob as a freelancer and now at war with them. Cross juggles being a single parent and being involved in the dangerous game of tracking serial killers until he finally decides to give it up for his family. Needless to say, he's drawn back into the game when it promises a chance of finding Maria's killer. Cross's competence and vulnerability make a stark contrast with Sullivan's sadistic mutilations and psychological manipulations of his victims. Fans know that Cross will survive, but at what cost? (Nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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For Alex Cross's 12th descent into hell, Patterson (Mary, Mary) abandons the nursery-rhyme titles he has used for other books in the series. Tired of spending time away from his family tracking horrifying killers, Cross quits the FBI and returns to his psychology practice. When his former partner, John Sampson, asks for help, Cross can't stay away, especially when it looks as if the killer might also be responsible for the murder of Cross's wife years earlier. Patterson fans will find a lot that's recognizable here, as the story reads like everything he's done before. This series is becoming tired, and Patterson seems to be trying to compensate by making each villain successively more repulsive. The rushed and tacked-on ending will irritate readers instead of pleasing them. The best Patterson books, like Jack and Jill, are intricate and substantial, not just gore draped over a thin plot. Even though this book will debut in the top spot on the New York Times best sellers list, it is not recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 7/06.]-Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Dr. Alex Cross goes up against the psychopath who killed his wife, with eminently predictable results. Michael Sullivan, the Butcher of Sligo, has long been the favorite hit man of Dominic Maggione, head of the New York crime family, and his son, John Maggione Jr. In between well-paid professional killings, each of them punctuated with a little bow, he likes to indulge a hobby: serial rape and murder. After honing his skills on his late father and an abusive parish priest, he's moved on to assaulting professional women, threatening them with a bloody scalpel, and returning to slash, mutilate, kill and photograph them if they've reported the rape to the police. Years ago, social worker Maria Cross's caseload included one of the Butcher's victims who decided to talk, and Maria was gunned down on the street as she ran to embrace her husband, back from a hard day's work catching criminals for the DC Metro Police, in a scene that allowed Patterson to indulge both his mushy (Sam's Letters to Jennifer, 2004, etc.) and sadistic (Mary Mary, 2005, etc.) sides. Now that his family's talked him into quitting the force, Cross thinks his life as a clinical psychologist will be quieter. But his very first patient is being abused by her violent fiance, a DC cop, and his old buddy Detective John Sampson keeps roping him in for more consults. The Butcher, meanwhile, has troubles of his own. Junior Maggione has declared war on him, and he ends up having to kill a number of former colleagues even though neither love nor money changes hands. Although Patterson keeps the pot boiling with one darn felony after another, nothing really happens, and after a while, the nonstop violence becomes as routine as thecoupling in a stag film. The biggest disappointment, though, is an ending that makes you realize you should have skipped this installment and waited for the sequel. Agent: Jennifer Rudolph Walsh/William Morris Agency

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446619059
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 10/1/2007
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: REV
  • Pages: 416
  • Sales rank: 33,991
  • Series: Alex Cross Series, #12
  • Product dimensions: 7.52 (w) x 4.22 (h) x 1.09 (d)

Meet the Author

James Patterson
James Patterson

James Patterson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many books, including Beach Road, Honeymoon, Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas, as well as the Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club series of thrillers. More than 100 million of his books are in print around the world, making him one of the top-selling writers of all time.

Biography

James Patterson had been working as a very successful advertising copywriter when he decided to put his Masters degree in English to a somewhat different use. Inspired by bestselling hair-raising thrillers like The Day of the Jackal and The Exorcist, Patterson went to work on his first novel. Published in 1976, The Thomas Berryman Number established him as a writer of tightly constructed mysteries that move forward with the velocity of a bullet. For his startling debut, Patterson was awarded the prestigious Edgar Award for Best First Mystery Novel—an auspicious beginning to one of the most successful careers in publishing.

A string of gripping standalone mysteries followed, but it was the 1992 release of Along Came a Spider that elevated Patterson to superstar status. Introducing Alex Cross, a brilliant black police detective/forensic psychologist, the novel was the first installment in a series of bestselling thrillers that has proved to be a cash cow for the author and his publisher.

Examining Patterson's track record, it's obvious that he believes one good series deserves another…maybe even a third! In 2001, he debuted the Women's Murder Club with 1st to Die, a fast-paced thriller featuring four female crime fighters living in San Francisco—a homicide detective, a medical examiner, an assistant D.A., and a cub reporter. The successful series has continued with other numerically titled installments. Then, spinning off a set of characters from a previous novel (1998's When the Wind Blows), in 2005 he published Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. Featuring a "flock" of genetically engineered flying children, the novel was a huge hit, especially with teen readers, and spawned a series of vastly popular fantasy adventures.

In addition to continuing his bestselling literary franchises, Patterson has also found time to co-author thrillers with other writers—including Peter de Jonge, Andrew Gross, Maxine Paetro, and Howard Roughan—and has even ventured into romance (Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, Sam's Letters to Jennifer) and children's literature (santaKid). Writing at an astonishing pace, this prolific author has turned himself into a one-man publishing juggernaut, fulfilling his clearly stated ambition to become "the king of the page-turners."

Good To Know

Patterson's Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas was inspired by a diary his wife kept that tracked the development of their toddler son.

Two of Patterson's Alex Cross mysteries (Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls) have been turned into films starring Morgan Freeman; in 2007, a weekly television series premiered, based on the bestselling Women's Murder Club novels.

    1. Hometown:
      Palm Beach, Florida
    1. Date of Birth:
      March 22, 1947
    2. Place of Birth:
      Newburgh, New York
    1. Education:
      B.A., Manhattan College, 1969; M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1971
    2. Website:
      http://www.jamespatterson.com

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Cross

By James Patterson

Little, Brown

Copyright © 2006 James Patterson
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0-316-15979-4

Chapter One

"I'M PREGNANT, ALEX."

Everything about the night is so very clear to me. Still is, after all this time, all these years that have passed, everything that's happened, the horrible murderers, the homicides solved and sometimes not.

I stood in the darkened bedroom with my arms lightly circling my wife Maria's waist, my chin resting on her shoulder. I was thirty-one then, and had never been happier at any time of my life.

Nothing even came close to what we had together, Maria, Damon, Jannie, and me.

It was the fall of 1993, a million years ago it seems to me now.

It was also past two in the morning, and our baby Jannie had the croup something terrible. Poor sweet girl had been up for most of the night, most of the last few nights, most of her young life. Maria was gently rocking Jannie in her arms, humming "You Are So Beautiful," and I had my arms around Maria, rocking her.

I was the one who'd gotten up first, but I couldn't seem to get Jannie back to sleep no matter what tricks I tried. Maria had come in and taken the baby after an hour or so. We both had work early in the morning. I was on a murder case.

"You're pregnant?" I said against Maria's shoulder.

"Bad timing, huh, Alex? You see a lot more croup in your future? Binkies? More dirty diapers? Nights like this one?"

"I don't like this part so much. Being up late, or early, whatever this is. But I loveour life, Maria. And I love that we're going to have another baby."

I held on to Maria and turned on the music from the mobile dangling over Janelle's crib. We danced in place to "Someone to Watch Over Me."

Then she gave me that beautiful partly bashful, partly goofy smile of hers, the one I'd fallen for, maybe on the very first night I ever saw her. We had met in the emergency room at St. Anthony's, during an emergency. Maria had brought in a gangbanger, a gunshot victim, a client of hers. She was a dedicated social worker, and she was being protective-especially since I was a dreaded metro homicide detective, and she didn't exactly trust the police. Then again, neither did I.

I held Maria a little tighter. "I'm happy. You know that. I'm glad you're pregnant. Let's celebrate. I'll get some champagne."

"You like being the big daddy, huh?"

"I do. Don't know why exactly. I just do."

"You like screaming babies in the middle of the night?"

"This too shall pass. Isn't that right, Janelle? Young lady, I'm talking to you."

Maria turned her head away from the wailing baby and gave me a sweet kiss on the lips. Her mouth was soft, always inviting, always sexy. I loved her kisses-anytime, anywhere.

She finally wriggled out of my arms. "Go back to bed, Alex. No sense both of us being up. Get some sleep for me too."

Just then, I noticed something else in the bedroom, and I started to laugh, couldn't help myself.

"What's so funny?" Maria smiled.

I pointed, and she saw it too. Three apples-each one with a single childlike bite out of it. The apples were propped on the legs of three stuffed toys, different-colored Barney dinosaurs. Toddler Damon's fantasy play was revealed to us. Our little boy had been spending some time in his sister Jannie's room.

As I got to the doorway, Maria gave me that goofy smile of hers again. And a wink. She whispered-and I will never forget what she said-"I love you, Alex. No one will ever love you the way I do."

(Continues...)


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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 10, 2011

    Highly Recommended

    This is Alex Cross!!! The storyline was great ~ bring in the character that who killed his wife years earlier and was still around was a great plot. Couldn't put this book down.

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  • Posted May 22, 2011

    Incredible!!!!

    Intense! Keeping you on ur toes. Great book

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  • Posted May 18, 2010

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    Couldn't read fast enough!

    Good, fast, intense, quick moving plot that I wouldn't read through fast enough! I just wanted to keep turning pages to find out a little more about Alex's quest to catch the serial rapist and wife's killer! Needless to say I couldn't put the book down. Great cat and mouse characters, loved how two stories were told in one. Good twists and turns that kept me interested so that I wasn't trying to think ahead. I definitely recommend this book as a good, quick, lazy day read that will make the day fly by. Can't wait to read Double Cross!
    xoxo_leigh

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  • Posted October 27, 2008

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    Jennifer Wardrip - Personal Read

    Having been a long-time fan of the Alex Cross series, I was eager to open up my copy of CROSS. A lot of what I love about the series and Patterson's writing were inside the pages of this book: short chapters, straight-to-the-point dialogue, a fast-moving plot. The only problem is that the plot, in general, left me wanting to yell at someone.

    I can overlook the fact that Alex Cross's wife apparently didn't die the way he had originally stated. I can even overlook the fact that after fourteen years and several other relationships (one that even ended in producing a son), Alex now seems obsessed with "getting over" his long-dead wife.

    What I couldn't overlook was the fact that with this book, besides being a detailed description of his wife's murder and Alex's new committment to finding her killer, there's not a whole lot else there. The Alex in this book is moody, melancholy, and totally anti-Alex Cross to the point that I wasn't even sure, halfway through the book, that I was reading about the same character.

    He's not the only one, though. His children, his friends, and even dear old Nana Mama are all acting out of character--and not in good ways.

    Sure, the "mystery and suspense" part of the story is a pretty good one. Patteron's writing style is always a welcome change to me.

    CROSS, though, is one Alex Cross story I could have done without.

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  • Posted April 18, 2012

    Highly recommended

    This book was a smooth read

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 3, 2012

    Ho hum

    Starting to remind me more of a Superman comic than a detective series.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 3, 2012

    Awesome

    I love the whole series and cant wait for the next one!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 23, 2012

    Kept My Attention

    This was my first Alex Cross series book. It kept my attention and was a fast read.

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  • Posted January 17, 2012

    Amazing

    Cross is definitely for matuer audiences! I love James Pattersons intensity in this book! he knows exactly how to keep you interested and leaves you wanting to read the next book. Or even read any other book of his. I couldnt put it down after the 2nd chapter. If youre not into long mystery books this book would not be for you

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 25, 2011

    A Must Read

    While the news is out that a movie has been made called I Alex Cross - the movie is based on this book in the series with Tyler Perry starring as Detective Alex Cross. This book brings out all the stops and James Pattetson crafts a thrilling story. Bravo for selecting this to be the latest Alex Cross for the big screen. Tyler Perry fits the character much more than Morgan Freedom did in the previous big screen movies.

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  • Posted October 11, 2011

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    Highly recommended for book club discussions

    If you are a fan of thrillers and mystery you will love Cross. In Cross, Alex Cross is on the hunt for a callous killer who is connected to the murder of his wife. Overall this book is a very entertaining read; however some parts were a bit unrealistic. This book was enjoyable as was all the other James Patterson books we've read. It sparked very intresting discussions and a myriad of opions on the characters.

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  • Posted June 6, 2011

    Definitely better literature out there....

    Like most writers who just keep cranking them out...they definitely go downhill. I hadn't read Patterson in many years and since I didn't have any books lined up; figured I'd try this one from the library. Maybe my reading tastes have grown up ...I'm certainly in the minority as far as the other reveiwers. The book was boring ....I skimmed the last few chapters just to be done with it. Mostly, I felt that the story was full of gratuitous violence, blood and gore. Who needs it?

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  • Posted April 26, 2011

    Stayed up too late reading this one.

    Couldn't put this one down. Easy to see where Michael Sullivan's psychosis came from as details of his childhood were revealed. What about his mom and brothers? I like it when the loose ends are tied up. Therefore, I agree with the reviewer who wants to know who called Alex at the end of the book and said he had killed someone. I see no reference to it in Double Cross (I am about 70 pgs. into that one). Have to wonder how Caitlin didn't have concerns about her husband's business (she is supposed to be innocent of it) as they are shot at and moving about constantly. I never realized that Alex has been wearing his wedding ring all this time until it came out in a session with Kim Stafford. How'd he ever get a date? Michael Sullivan was a great villain and I agree with some others that I found myself feeling sorry for him on some levels. How could he possibly turn out alright after his childhood? I found Sampson's confession to basically murdering Jimmy Hats with Rakeem Powell disturbing. It was interesting thought that the guy who always has Alex's back killed the guy who always had the butcher's back. All in all a good book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 3, 2011

    Great Book

    Had a hard time putting it down. Another good Cross book.

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  • Posted February 22, 2011

    great

    great

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  • Posted January 27, 2011

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    Another winner for James Patterson

    I enjoyed "Cross" tremenously.

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  • Posted November 30, 2010

    Justin Duty

    We've all been through a rough time in our lives, some have even been through rough times that had left them traumatized for the rest of their lives. Alex Cross is a prime example of this. Imagine watching someone you love, someone you care deeply about, being gunned down maliciously right in front of you. The number and strength of emotions that he was experiencing would overwhelm most ordinary people in a situation such as his. Years later, life for Alex has made a turn for the better. He quit his job in the FBI, and returned to his life as a psychologist. But just when things seem like they going good, his ex-partner gets a case that involves a serial rapist in the outskirts of Georgetown. At first it seemed like nothing, but then a clue links the rapist to the murder of his wife, which had occurred years ago. Now determined, he begins his hunt for the man, psychopath rather, who brutally killed his beloved wife. Filled with twists and turns, this memoir consists of non-stop suspense, and in my opinion, is definitely a good read.

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  • Posted June 7, 2010

    Cross

    "Cross" by James Patterson is a Thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seats.The main character Alex Cross was an old time detective that was using his smarts to find his wifes killer. The book was written well and used a mystery to portray a man living on edge.

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  • Posted May 15, 2010

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    A good read

    I've read most of the Alex Cross Series by James Patterson. Jack and Jill was my favorite. I've also read most of the Woman's Murder Club Series. 1st To Die was my favorite in that series. I've also read Swimsuit and The Quickie, as a "stand alone" and both were excellent novels. Cross was a good read. As usual, there was good depth of character (Sullivan) which can actually make you care for the characters. The plot was interesting. It moved a bit slow in the middle and the usual twists and turns were missing. As a marriage and family therapist, I was also disappointed that Alex broke therapist-client confidentiality in the book. I also love Patterson's writing style. His writing style and short chapters make his novels an easy read.

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  • Posted March 27, 2010

    James Patterson is one of my favorite authors and he didn't let us down in this book

    I always look forward to the next James Patterson book. This book was able to hold my interest from start to finish. He makes the characters seem so real and they have such interesting personalities. You can even be sympathatic with the villain in this one.

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