The 27th novel in the best-selling Alex Cross series. Hours after witnessing the execution of a killer he helped put behind bars, Detective Alex Cross is called to the scene of a copycat murder and a note is found on the corpse: You messed up big time, Dr Cross. The executed convict's family launches a vicious campaign against Alex and his abilities as a detective are called into question. Did he condemn an innocent man? A series of homicides lures Alex out of Washington DC,
Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an entire regiment against him, hunting for him as they did for no other. He was wounded, and racked by tropical disease. His companions were killed, or captured...