**SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL AMAZON PRIME 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** ‘Alex Cross is a legend.’ **HARLAN COBEN ** *_*** ** *_*** ** *_*** ** *_*** ** *_*** ______** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **The President’s children have been kidnapped.** Detective Alex Cross is investigating the shocking crime, but someone powerful is trying to keep him off the case. Just days later, a deadly contagion in the DC water supply threatens to cripple the capital, and Cross fears that the stakes are much higher than he first thought – America is under attack. If Cross stands a chance of finding the missing children and preventing an event that could change the fate of the nation, he must make a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes in. *****_*** ** *_*** ** *_*** ** *_*** ** *_*** ____** ‘It’s no mystery why James Patterson is the world’s most popular thriller writer . . . Simply nobody does it better.’ **JEFFERY DEAVER** ‘The master storyteller of our times’ **HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON** ‘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** ‘James Patterson is The Boss. End of.’ **IAN RANKIN**