The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved murders in D.C.'s rough neighborhoods. Years later, still haunted by his wife's death, Cross is making a bold move in his life. Now a free agent from the police and the FBI, he's set up practice as a psychologist. His life with Nana Mama, Damon, Jannie, and little Alex finally feels stable, and he even has a chance at a new love. Then Cross's former partner, John Sampson,...

In this thrilling novel from a New York Times bestselling author, Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered: a predator known only as the Wolf.
  Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues baffled. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes....

FBI agent Alex Cross is after a serial murder who chooses as his victims women who've neglected their children for successful careers in the entertainment industry, he describes the murders in overheated e-mails he addresses to his victims but sends to hapless entertainment columnist Arnold Griner, signing them "Mary Smith."

The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved murders in D.C.'s rough neighborhoods. Years later, still haunted by his wife's death, Cross is making a bold move in his life. Now a free agent from the police and the FBI, he's set up practice as a psychologist. His life with Nana Mama, Damon, Jannie, and little Alex finally feels stable, and he even has a chance at a new love. Then Cross's former partner, John Sampson,...