On the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Alex's phone rings, he knows that this won't be a merry Christmas. Armed to the teeth and high on crystal meth, Henry Fowler is dangerously unstable. It will be a terrorist attack like Washington DC ...

On the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Alex's phone rings, he knows that this won't be a merry Christmas. Armed to the teeth and high on crystal meth, Henry Fowler is dangerously unstable. It will be a terrorist attack like Washington DC has never seen, and when nobody expects it.