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(3.72) | 26 | Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, he's called to investigate a second crime. All of Washington, D.C., is in a panic, and when a third body is discovered, rumours of three serial killers send the city into an all-out frenzy. Alex's investigations are going nowhere, and he's too focused on the cases to notice that someone has been watching him--and will stop at nothing until he's dead.… (more) |
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▾Book descriptions Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, he's called to investigate a second crime. All of Washington, D.C., is in a panic, and when a third body is discovered, rumours of three serial killers send the city into an all-out frenzy. Alex's investigations are going nowhere, and he's too focused on the cases to notice that someone has been watching him--and will stop at nothing until he's dead. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Alex Cross is on the hunt of his life...ln Washington, D.C., top plastic surgeon Elijah Creem is renowned for his operating skills—
and his wild parties of drugs, champagne, and illicit sex. When Detective Alex Cross busts one of Creem’s soirees, the doctor takes the most drastic step to avoid prison. Before Alex can finish this case, a beautiful woman is murdered with a lock of her hair viciously ripped off. Then a second woman is found, hanging from a window
with a brutal scar slashed across her stomach. After a third mutilated body is discovered, rumors of three serial killers on the loose send the city into an all-out frenzy. But under intense pressure
to solve all these grim cases, the detective doesn't notice that someone very obsessed and twisted is stalking him---and won’t
stop until Alex is dead.
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Dr Elijah Creen and Josh Bergman are hosting a party in a rented house in Georgetown, Washington DC. Cross and Sampson raid the party and find Creen and Bergman filming the ‘talent’. Creen tries to offer Cross a bribe who thinks this is just an unfortunate scandal and the only person upset was his wife who filed for divorce. As this is happening there are three killers running riot across DC. Metro PD are under a lot of pressure with plenty of eyes on the investigation. Cross is under pressure and one of the suspects files a restraining order on him. Everything seems to be going wrong for Cross, and he feels he is being hampered at every turn.
While the thriller and the parts of the investigation are great there are times in the book when you feel like Cross needs ‘to get over himself’. This is not one of the best Patterson thrillers and while I am a completist there is nothing really to recommend the book. (