Alex Cross Must Die: (Alex Cross 31) The latest novel in the thrilling Sunday Times bestselling series
£9.50
TWO KILLERS. TWO MOTIVES. A DEADLY RACE AGAINST TIME.
When an American Airlines plane explodes in the sky, detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson are first on the scene. They don’t hear the gunfire. At first.
It soon becomes clear that the plane was taken down by a rare, stolen machine gun. The list of people who could operate the weapon is short. And time runs even shorter.
But this isn’t the only case the pair must solve. They’re also tracking a serial killer who’s ambushing young men in what the media are calling the ‘Dead Hours’ murders.
With two killers and two different motives, Cross and Sampson are in a deadly race against time . . .
The latest thriller in the globally bestselling series has arrived.
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PRAISE FOR THE ALEX CROSS SERIES
‘Patterson never, and I mean never, disappoints’ USA Today
‘Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn’t forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent – which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it’ Lee Child
‘Alex Cross is a legend’ Harlan Coben
‘Alex Cross … only gets better and better’ Lisa Scottoline
‘[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages’ Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Triple Cross was a Sunday Times bestseller October 27 2022
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Additional information
| Publisher | Penguin (26 Oct. 2023) |
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| Language | English |
| File size | 5513 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 389 pages |
by Jen
Great – but finished it too soon, now waiting for the next!
by cathy smith
Great book
by Alan in Durham
Bree has two cases. Cross has two. Sampson is alone at times. Flipping between these elements shortens chapters.
Now we are told who is guilty of main investigation along with having secondary Cross case killer exposed from start. Bree has only mysteries but unconvincing picking through the detail.
Read the title.
He is shot at a few times but nothing in the book supports a title that implies that he is the target inferred.
Unlike many other books the 4 elements identified very early on do not merge into a single story. It is not one book but 4 short stories.
Bree investigates a missing person and finds her as a victim in the terrorist attack but carrying a false passport in a previous name. And this climaxes by being taken away from her into a fraud investigation by FBI. No explanation of the need for such a passport.
Her second starts as a favour for stepdaughter Jannie. It becomes another missing person found murdered and when she stumbles on pertinent evidence the killer immediately commits suicide. Absolutely no tension or depth to the story.
The opening story for Cross and Sampson is a serial killer. This is interspersed with the other three but is basically a short story that is stretched for most of the book. The culprit is arrested and is more than willing to let us know the reasons for the spree. Money!! Killer for hire. No admission about hirer. He dies of cancer in days but leaves behind a possible reference to a previous mastermind who has evaded Cross.
And what should be the central story line of a massive terrorist storyline turns out to have two people using the same name which meant for me, at least, that I had no idea which version is in the earlier chapters. The real version is missing for an unexplained period and a second spell briefly explained.
And the bogus version is killed by Cross…..
Another short story where most of the investigation appears off story with conclusions fed in so that Cross is directed to a car chase using data from onboard computer from the bogus version’s car.
Patterson has painted himself into a corner with Stone and Sampson. She has no public job anymore but cannot follow a life of a housespouse, NanaMama is fulfilling that domestic base. Stories for her are shoehorned into this ineffectively.
Sampson is a Washington policeman as far as I can remember but ends up in stories linked to FBI although he is not employed by them. In this book he also works in other police areas where FBI has a remit but is not partnering Cross all of the time.
And NanaMama does YouTube. Filler.
A very unsatisfactory book that is loose bits of ideas cobbled together.
by steve topham
Good read
by Ann Wales
Could not put this down. As always the plot keeps you eager to turn each page. Less emphasis on Alex than in previous books but the intrigue was still there.
by Mrs. M.A. Jones
Another great story. I. Have read all Alex cross hope you do book 32 can’t wait I’ve read
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by Amazon Customer
Delivered as promised. Great price and excellent read.
by sam and edna
James Patterson is the king of storytelling. I have read every book that he has written. However the CROSS series are way above anything else EXCELLENT!!!! I wait with baited breath for the next one. SOON I HOPE!!!!