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...

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 11/19/2001
ISBN: 9780316693233
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.30d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/15/2001 pg. 56
Booklist 08/01/2001 pg. 2054
Booklist 10/01/2001 pg. 268
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2001 pg. 1388
Publishers Weekly 10/15/2001 pg. 47
Booklist 10/15/2001 pg. 356
Library Journal 11/01/2001 pg. 133
People Weekly 11/26/2001 pg. 58
Mystery Review 12/01/2001 pg. 31
USA Today 12/18/2002 pg. 1

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 67640 / Violets Are Blue
Reading Level: 4.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11