Cross Down: The Sunday Times bestselling thriller

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This one is fast-paced, and really features John Simpson in a rush to save the country from a looming threat. While Cross fights for his life, Sampson must move forward without his partner’s great intelligence for profiling and hunting down serial killers. Over three decades and 31 books, the character of Alex Cross has hunted many serial killers and other villains and bad guys. The only sad part is that we don’t get to see Alex take the reigning spotlight that the series does. Cross and Sampson find themselves sitting in the same room with representatives from the NSA, FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, and the DC Metro Police.

Cross is rushed into surgery at a nearby hospital, suffering from a collapsed ling and fighting for his life.

The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC’s, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world. His time with Metro PD in Washington has been quite eye-opening, an experience shared with his partner, John Sampson. As a shadow force advances on the nation’s capital, Sampson alone must protect the Cross family, his own young daughter, and every American, including the president. Short chapters, in Patterson’s traditional way, help push things along and keep the reader delving deeper into things as they occur.

Another interesting thing that I noted is that the authors kept the same storytelling point-of-view that I thought worked well. If those two taglines aren’t enough, the inside flap synopsis should clear all doubt that this will be different with its first sentence – “For the first time, John Sampson is on his own.I am actually rather surprised that this type of plotting hasn’t been done previously… And it’s about time. The title of the book is a little misleading, it should say: A John Sampson with Alex Cross thriller. I know in looking at a lot of online comments that this seemed to upset a lot of fans, but I am not sure why.

Random car bombings, shootings, and public attacks taking place across the country may actually be connected in a more deadly plot than previously imagined. This leaves John to figure out why these attacks are happening and what the connection is between the attacks. Among his creations are some of the world's most popular series including Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Michael Bennett and the Private novels.Sampson must use his own strengths and experience to hunt down those who tried to kill his partner and best friend. He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Effing Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Princess Diana, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses.