Alex Cross rejoins the police force to face the most diabolical villain he has ever encountered--a serial killer with a hunger for mega-celebrity--in Pattersons latest #1 New York Times bestseller, now in a tall Premium Edition. Alex Cross faces two crazed killers in this chilling, suspenseful blockbuster from James Patterson, the man who cant miss (Time). A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. Theres only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience. As victims are made into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing a media hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man hes after is a genius of terror-and hes after fame. The killer has the whole city by its strings-and hell stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen.