


The latest of the unspeakable crimes happened in Alex Cross's precinct. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the "crime of the century," is playing at the top of his game. What is she running from? What is her secret? Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair-at the worst possible time for both of them. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she's got an outer shell that's as tough s it is beautiful. Jezzie Flanaganis the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington.

They are his own special vulnerabilities. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. Cross works and lives in the ghettos of D.C.

Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them - he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He's so popular that the kids all call him "Mr. Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him - even after he's been captured. A missing little girl named Maggie Rose.A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C.The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher.A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh.
