Alex Cross is gravely injured and only his partner and friend, John Sampson, can keep him safe . . . and get justice. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington DC's Metro PD and the FBI has a proven operating procedure: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces th...

Alex Cross is gravely injured and only his partner and friend, John Sampson, can keep him safe . . . and get justice. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington DC's Metro PD and the FBI has a proven operating procedure: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. Then a series of military-style attacks erupts. No sooner do Cross and Sampson join the investigation than Alex is brutally sidelined. The threat to Sampson's best friend, his partner, his brother, sends him reeling. * The patterns are too random,Alex has told him. Don't trust anyone *. Among Sampson's Army network, some soldiers are called to secret duty assignments. Others are disappearing. As a shadow force advances on the nation's capital, Sampson alone must protect the Cross family, his own young daughter, and every American including the president. The detective has a new enemy. Time.