
The 22nd and 23rd installments in the series, it’s a little tricky to figure out anything new to write about the series. Cross My Heart ended on quite the cliffhanger, with Alex Cross distraught and lost, so I was very eager to get my hands on Hope to Die. These two novels are linked, which is I think the first time Patterson has chosen to make consecutive novels a single story (not including the cross-book storyline featuring the Mastermind from the earlier books, although this is a similar idea, if shorter). Soon he will have nothing and no one left.

Now he’s unable to protect even those closest to him.Īs a police detective, he has made many enemies, but never like this.Įverything he loves is being taken from him. He has been hunted, stalked like prey, his predator priming himself for the kill.Ĭross has devoted his life to protecting others.

Alex Cross’s whole world is crashing down around him.
