african american detectives

It's a snowy Christmas Eve and Alex Cross is at home celebrating. Just then he gets a shattering phone call about a situation that is quickly spiraling out of control. As he rushes to the scene, another critical drama unfolds and soon Alex must make a decision that could end as many lives as it saves...including his own.

Alex Cross, Washington D.C.'s top detective, is a legend. He has devoted his life to protect others. He has handled the most complex and shocking cases. But nothing prepares him for the sight of a homicide detective at his own front door. Alex's family has been kidnapped and a madman named Thierry Mulch is threatenting to kill them one by one. Mulch doesn't care about money or mercy and he doesn't want to become the perfect killer---he wants to create one. And so begins a ruthless experiment of good versus evil---with Alex Cross as the guinea pig.

Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart---nothing matters more than his children, his grandmother, and his wife. Love of his family is his anchor, and it gives him the stamina to confront the evil in his work. But someone out there knows this, and Alex's strength becomes his weakness. Alex's enemy uses it to destroy the famous detective.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

"Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart -- nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife, Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, giving him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, a genius set on proving that he is the greatest criminal mind of all, and he uses Alex's strength as a weapon against him. When the ones Cross loves are in danger, he will do anything to protect them. But if he even tries, they will die."--back cover.

Newark private detective Tamara Hayle finds herself trapped in a maze of secrets and half-truths when she agrees to try and discover who has been stalking respected radio talk-show host Mandy Magic, a woman who has literally talked herself out of poverty.

Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.

Determined to capture the psychopath responsible for murdering his niece, Alex Cross discovers that the young woman was among a dangerous group of people and was not the only one to have disappeared.

On his birthday, detective Alex Cross is informed that his niece, Caroline, has been brutally murdered and Cross' investigation leads him to a fantasy-driven scene in Washington, D.C., where he realizes he is tracking a serial killer, but danger mounts when Cross connects the deaths to some very important people.

It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is called away from his family to resolve a horrific hostage situation that is spiraling out of control.