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The Big Bad Wolf
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale
- Series: Alex Cross (abridged), Book 9
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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The seventh novel in the Alex Cross series. The Mastermind is back - and he's hot on detective Alex Cross's trail. His cold, taunting threats leave Alex angry and deeply concerned for his family's safety. Two joggers have been found dead in San Francisco - bitten and hung by their feet to drain the blood. Further murders in California, and then on the East Coast as well, completely baffle Alex and the FBI. Is this the work of a cult, or role players, or even of modern-day vampires?
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- Alex Cross, Book 16
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Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that his niece, Caroline, has been found brutally murdered. Cross vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that Caroline was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.
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love the series...not this story teller
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Cross Fire
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Detective Alex Cross and Bree’s wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most hated public figures: a corrupt congressman and an underhanded lobbyist. As more crooked politicians are picked off with similar long-range shots, public opinion is divided - is the marksman a vigilante or a hero?Media coverage of the case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation.
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Jack and Jill by James Patterson, read by Ako Mitchell. Detective Alex Cross is stretched to breaking point as two killers hit Washington, DC. A controversial US Senator is found murdered in his Georgetown bed. On the other side of town, a beautiful little girl is found dead, savagely beaten. Alex Cross can’t solve both cases and is forced to make an impossible choice. No one in Washington is safe - but can Cross discover the truth before the killer sets their sights on the ultimate target?
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Enjoy the books
- By kalista sinclar on 24-10-2020
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Kill Alex Cross
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Andre Braugher, Zach Grenier
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Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he’s ever been part of. The President’s son and daughter have been abducted from their school – an impossible crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn’t want Cross too close.
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very well done. as always.
- By cbeauty on 12-12-2017
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Alex Cross, Run
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman, Steven Boyer
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Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him - by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and the killer, he's called to investigate a second crime.
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Alex Cross's Trial
- Alex Cross, Book 15
- By: Richard Dilallo, James Patterson
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker, Shawn Andrew
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Separated by time, connected by blood, united by bravery. Alex Cross tells the irresistible story - passed down through the generations - of an ancestor's courageous fight for freedom. From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great-uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written - a novel called Trial.
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One of the few I’ve returned
- By Jake Rothe on 28-01-2021
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Cross My Heart
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman, Tom Wopat
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Alex Cross’s whole world is crashing down around him. He has been hunted, stalked like prey, his predator priming himself for the kill. Cross has devoted his life to protecting others. Now he’s unable to protect even those closest to him. As a police detective, he has made many enemies, but never like this. Everything he loves is being taken from him. Soon he will have nothing and no one left.
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very captivating. did not get bored.good narrative
- By Amazon Customer on 20-10-2016
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Hope to Die
- Alex Cross, Book 22
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman, Scott Sowers
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family – his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he loves?
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loved it
- By Amazon Customer on 24-10-2016
Publisher's Summary
Who’s Afraid? Alex Cross’s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues perplexed. Across the country, men and women are kidnapped in broad daylight. They are not being taken for ransom, Alex realises, but being bought and sold. And it seems The Wolf is the master criminal behind this terrible trade. You’re Afraid. Getting impatient with the FBI’s clumsiness and caution when it is time to move, Alex has to go out on his own in order to track his new prey and try to rescue some of the victims.
Full of the unexpected twists and heartrending surprises that James Patterson is famed for.
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