What’s the only thing worse than a serial killing psychopath? A psychopathic Secret Service Agent. The protagonist, Alex Cross, is caught in the middle of an investigation into what happened to Maggie Rose Dunne. He is the puppet for The D.C. police department and the mayor’s office, the Secret Service, the F.B.I., and the two criminals of the
story. The first criminal, the genius mastermind—Gary Soneji/Murphy—has kidnapped the
daughter of a famous
actress and the son of a
politician only to have the son of the politician die, and the daughter of the famous actress kidnapped by the other villain in the story—Jezzie Flanagan.
The well written and high action plot puts the detective, for the Washington D.C. police department, in the middle of the highest profiled kidnapping case since the abduction of the Lindbergh Baby. Through the story, he falls in love with Jezzie Flanagan, befriends the criminal Gary Soneji/Murphy—in order to find the missing Maggie Rose Dunne—and is at the whim of the city of Washington D.C., the F.B.I., and the frustrated parents of Maggie Rose Dunne. Alex Cross is driven to find out why he is the one at the center of the case, why he is the only one finding any leads, and why he is the only one interested in the truth. The end is bitter sweet for Alex Cross as he loses love, but finds redemption, and the answers he has been searching for.
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