The President’s children have been kidnapped. The water supply for Washington DC has been poisoned. Alex Cross is on both cases.

The eighteenth novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series

____________________________________ ‘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 series ____________________________________

The President’s children have been kidnapped. Detective Alex Cross faces a ticking clock.

Detective Alex Cross grapples with an impossible crime and mounting political pressure. But this is only the beginning as a deadly contaminant in the Washington DC water supply cripples the city.

Alex soon realises that the stakes are much higher - America is under attack.

Tasked by the desperate First Lady with finding her children, Alex races against the clock and must make a decision that goes against everything he believes in if he’s to save them.