**Detective Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying case of his career **

**Detective Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying case of his career **

Alex Cross’s niece, Naomi, is missing. Cross fears the disappearance could be linked to a string of recent abductions and murders. Two brilliant and twisted killers, operating on opposite sides of the country, are collaborating and competing, encouraging each other to perpetrate increasingly horrific crimes.

Cross must hunt down these two brutal masterminds – not only to rescue his niece, but also to save the lives of the many others still in danger…