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Cross Country

(Alex Cross 14)

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Cross Country

By: James Patterson
Narrated by: Ako Mitchell
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The fourteenth book in the bestselling Alex Cross series

A killer's trail leads Detective Alex Cross to Africa - and a whole new world of danger...

Detective Alex Cross is called in to investigate a massacre in Washington DC and is shocked to discover an old friend amongst the victims.

His pursuit of justice leads him to the Niger Delta, right into the den of the psychopathic perpetrator: the Tiger.

As Alex travels deeper into this dangerous world of corruption and conspiracy, his own survival is on the line...


'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, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

© James Patterson 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Crime Thrillers International Mystery & Crime Mystery Police Procedurals Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller Fiction Crime Africa

Critic Reviews

[Cross Country] opens with one of the most chilling murder scenes I've read in a long time ... High-octane stuff (DAILY EXPRESS)
It was absolutely fantastic ... Cross Country has an amazing sense of speed, there's a really brilliant tension in the plot ... You're just completely engrossed in it from start to finish ... The story is unrelentingly exciting (THE SIMON MAYO SHOW, BBC Radio 5 Live)
Heart-stopping, speed-charged, and electrifying, Cross Country is a stunning thriller from "the man who can't miss. (TIME)
It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer: his uncanny skill in creating living, breathing characters we truly feel for and seamless, lightning-fast plots. I do this for a living, and he still manages to keep me guessing from the first to last page ... Simply put: Nobody does it better. (JEFFERY DEAVER)
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, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series)
James Patterson is The Boss. End of. (IAN RANKIN, bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus series)
I wrote, "Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I've come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season's no. 1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name." A household name, indeed. (NELSON DEMILLE)
Every once in a while a writer comes along and fundamentally changes the way people read. He or she is so bright, so innovative, so industrious that what they envision and create becomes the measure by which all others are judged. In 1993 one such writer - James Patterson - began to do just that ... James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged. (STEVE BERRY, bestselling author of the Colton Malone series)
[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages. (DOUGLAS PRESTON and LINCOLN CHILD)
Alex Cross is a legend. (HARLAN COBEN)
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Story took too long to tell. Dr Cross as usual escapes each life threatening, impossible situation. This narrator is dreadful. Flat, lifeless, slow.

Story was drawn out

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Knowing that his friend and her family were killed because of what she knew, Alex Cross was surprised when his own family was kidnapped and possibly killed!! He never followed good advice and put himself and everyone around him at risk. The character is so full of his own self importance and mission he doesn’t consider anyone else. I think the author is letting go of the original Alex Cross character and writing on a factory assembly line. Letting go of good character and plot development to write sensationalistic plots with little planning or depth. It’s all about churning out Alex Cross is a Hero thoughtless stories!

Alex Cross is not the same character!

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Big fan of Alex Cross but this one not so much. Every other book family comes first, but this one they didn’t.

Not one of my favourites

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