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''Alex Cross is a legend''

''It''s no mystery why James Patterson is the world''s most popular thriller writer . . . Simply put: nobody does it better.''

''Alex Cross'' was a rising star in Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter killed his wife, Maria, in front of him.

Years later, having left the FBI and returned to practising psychology in Washington, DC, Alex finally feels his life is in order... Until his former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favour. John''s tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown and he needs Alex to help find this brutal predator.

When the case triggers a connection to Maria''s death, could Alex have a chance to catch his wife''s murderer? Will this be justice at long last? Or the endgame in his own deadly obsession?

''Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It''s what fires off the movie projector in the reader''s mind.'' MICHAEL CONNELLY

''One of the greatest storytellers of all time'' PATRICIA CORNWELL

''James Patterson is The Boss. End of.'' IAN RANKIN