The new novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series Alex C ross and John Sampson longtime friends and partners at DC Metro PD are about to leave on a much-anticipated trip into the wilderness when they're called to a murder scene in the middle of Washington DC . Instead of heading out to the mountains - or joining his wife Bree in Paris on her first assignment for an elite private security firm - C ross teams up with Sampson and FBI agent Ned Mahoney unaware of the threats that may be closing in on the entire C ross family. M the elusive killer who's been stalking C ross for years has resurfaced and is targeting federal agents. Since the two last confronted one another M has become even harder to identify and nearly impossible to catch. As the trail takes them across the country C ross and Sampson are drawn into a showdown that tests their partnership - and their will to survive.
