Detective Alex Cross is back in this bestselling follow-up to "Roses Are Red." Two joggers are brutally slain in San Francisco in a macabre ritual reminiscent of a case in Washington, D.C. that Cross has been unable to solve. As the carnage leaves a trail of bodies across America, a vicious criminal from Cross's past known as the Mastermind once again taunts him.
Detective Alex Cross must confront his most terrifying nemesis ever- and his own deepest fears- in this electrifying thriller from the world's #1 bestselling writer.
D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes. But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park-killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans. Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled.
Then, as Cross is called in to take on the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Los Angeles as his nemesis, the merciless criminal known as the Mastermind, stalks him, taunts him, and once again, threatens everything he holds dear...