Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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They came for his family. Now Detective Alex Cross is out for vengeance. 
 
Cross is met with shocking news that his niece has been brutally murdered. He vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that his niece was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. 
 
Cross finds himself confronting some very important, very protected, very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain - they will do anything to keep their secrets safe. 
 
As Cross closes in on the killer, he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable - a revelation that could rock the entire world.

I, Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 16)

TARGET: HEAD OF STATE 
 
Alex Cross and his family join men and women from across the nation lining the streets of Washington, DC to mourn the unexpected death of the president. 
 
TARGET: UNITED STATES CABINET 
 
With the country still in shock, the assassination of a prominent senator strikes another devastating blow to the heart of the nation's capital. 
 
TARGET: ALEX CROSS 
 
Cross is called on to lead the FBI investigation to find America's most wanted criminal. But what follows will plunge the country into chaos, and draw Cross into the most important case of his life.

Target: Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 26)

Detective Alex Cross has lost everything and everyone he's ever cared about. 
 
His enemy, Thierry Mulch, is holding his family hostage. Driven by feelings of hatred and revenge, Mulch is threatening to kill them all, and break Cross for ever. 
 
But Alex Cross is fighting back. 
 
In a race against time, he must defeat Mulch, and find his wife and children - no matter what it takes. 
 
THE END-GAME HAS BEGUN.

Hope to Die

(Alex Cross 22)

Detective Alex Cross has three killers to hunt, and one to escape . . . 
 
Pulled in every direction by three different investigations, Alex Cross has never been under more pressure. 
 
And with a crisis at home that threatens to tear his family apart, Cross's attention is divided. 
 
While Cross tracks the killers, he doesn't notice that someone is tracking him.

Alex Cross, Run

(Alex Cross 20)

ALEX CROSS IS GOING HOME. 
 
BUT WHAT WILL HE FIND WHEN HE GETS THERE? 
 
When his cousin is accused of an unthinkable crime, Detective Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades. 
 
As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where justice is hard to find, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known. 
 
Chasing the ghosts of his past, Cross gets pulled into a case involving a string of murders. Now he's hot on the trail of a cold-hearted killer - and the answers he finds could be fatal.

Cross Justice

(Alex Cross 23)

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.

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 19)

Alex Cross is being hunted. 
 
Now his predator is priming himself for the kill. 
 
Detective Alex Cross is investigating a string of violent murders in Washington, DC with his partner, Detective John Sampson. 
 
Little does Cross know he is being stalked by his biggest foe yet, an elusive psychopath fixated on Cross and the thing he loves most: his family. 
 
One by one, everyone is being taken from Alex and if he doesn't act fast, he'll lose everything... 
 
'Alex Cross is a legend.' HARLAN COBEN

Cross My Heart

(Alex Cross 21)

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