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Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
Alex Cross (Related to this series)
- Author
- James Patterson
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 22 November 2012
- Run Time
- 5 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'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
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
On the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Cross's phone rings, he knows that this won't be a merry Christmas.
A father has taken his children and ex-wife hostage. Armed to the teeth and high on crystal meth, the man is dangerously unstable. The lives of everyone in that house are hanging by a thread.
As this suburban nightmare is unfolding, another far greater threat is approaching. It will be a terrorist attack on a scale never before seen in Washington, DC, and when nobody expects it.
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'Alex Cross is a legend' HARLAN COBEN
'Fast-paced and tightly plotted, this is a dramatic thriller that shows why the books in this series sell by the truckload' SUNDAY MIRROR
'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer . . . Simply put: nobody does it better.' JEFFERY DEAVER
'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.' MICHAEL CONNELLY
'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL
'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting.' MARK LAWSON, GUARDIAN
'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN
© James Patterson 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2012
Critics Review
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Fast-paced and tightly plotted, this is a dramatic thriller that shows why the books in this series sell by the truckload.
SUNDAY MIRROR
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It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer: his uncanny skill in creating living, breathing characters we truly feel for and seamless, lightning-fast plots. I do this for a living, and he still manages to keep me guessing from the first to last page ... Simply put: Nobody does it better.
JEFFREY DEAVER
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Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn't forget that 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, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
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James Patterson is The Boss. End of.
IAN RANKIN, bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus series
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I wrote, "Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I've come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season's no. 1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name." A household name, indeed.
NELSON DEMILLE
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Every once in a while a writer comes along and fundamentally changes the way people read. He or she is so bright, so innovative, so industrious that what they envision and create becomes the measure by which all others are judged. In 1993 one such writer - James Patterson - began to do just that ... James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged.
STEVE BERRY, bestselling author of the Colton Malone series
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[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages.
DOUGLAS PRESTON and LINCOLN CHILD
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Alex Cross is a legend.
HARLAN COBEN
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Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.
MICHAEL CONNELLY
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Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination.
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Details
- Author
- James Patterson
- Narrator
- Cristin Milioti, Michael Boatman, Stephen Kunken
- Duration
- 5 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 November 2012
- ISBN
- 9781448136070
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Crime and mystery: police procedural
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.'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______________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Cross's phone rings, he knows that this won't be a merry Christmas.A father has taken his children and ex-wife hostage. Armed to the teeth and high on crystal meth, the man is dangerously unstable. The lives of everyone in that house are hanging by a thread.As this suburban nightmare is unfolding, another far greater threat is approaching. It will be a terrorist attack on a scale never before seen in Washington, DC, and when nobody expects it.______________________________________'Alex Cross is a legend' HARLAN COBEN'Fast-paced and tightly plotted, this is a dramatic thriller that shows why the books in this series sell by the truckload' SUNDAY MIRROR'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer . . . Simply put: nobody does it better.' JEFFERY DEAVER'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.' MICHAEL CONNELLY'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting.' MARK LAWSON, GUARDIAN'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN© James Patterson 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2012
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