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Présentation de l'éditeur
The sixteenth 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 They came for his family. Now Detective Alex Cross is out for vengeance.Detective Alex Cross is met with shocking news that his niece has been murdered. His investigation takes him into the belly of Washington DC's wild underground subcultures and Alex discovers that the killer has many victims.He finds himself confronting the capital's most powerful people who will stop at nothing to protect their world of unchecked power and dangerous secrets.As Alex closes in on the killer, the evidence begins to point to the unimaginable - a revelation about a powerful man that could rock the entire world...
Revue de presse
If there were really superheroes, Alex Cross would be at the head of the class. -- NEW YORK TIMES
Cross is such a lovable hero, a family oriented African-American whose compassion warmly balances the icy cruelty of Patterson's villains. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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. -- JEFFERY DEAVER
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
James Patterson is The Boss. End of. -- IAN RANKIN, bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus series
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
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
[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages. -- DOUGLAS PRESTON and LINCOLN CHILD
Alex Cross is a legend. -- HARLAN COBEN
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
Patterson knows where our deepest fears are Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination.buried... there's no stopping his imagination. -- NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Patterson is in a class by himself. -- VANITY FAIR
Sharp, sassy and guaranteed to send shivers down your spine, this is a tense thriller -- WOMAN
Cross is one of the best and most likeable characters in the modern thriller. -- SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
Biographie de l'auteur
JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 400 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades - the Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers including stand-alone thrillers and non-fiction.James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own
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