No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it. LEE CHILD, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher serie From the author of Sunday Times #1 bestseller The President is Missing __________________________________Could a ghost from his past take everything away from Alex Cross? Mere hours after witnessing the execution of a killer he helped put behind bars, Alex Cross is called to the scene of a copycat murder. A note signed M rests on the corpse: You messed up big time, Dr. Cross. Was an innocent man just put to death? As the executed convicts family launch a vicious campaign against Cross, his abilities as a detective are called into question. The enigmatic M lures Cross out of Washington, DC to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details that conjure up decades-old cases and Cross family secrets. Details that make it clear M is after a prize so dear that were the killer to attain it Crosss life would be destroyed....