The 16th novel in the bestselling Alex Cross seriesTheyve come for Detective Alex Crosss family. Now hell come for them.At a family celebration, Alex Cross hears the shocking news that his niece Caroline has been murdered. Grieving and furious, Crosss investigation takes him to Washington D.C.s wild underground subcultures and reveals that Caroline wasnt this killers only victim.Partnering with his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, Cross finds himself confronting a world of unchecked power, where the capitals most powerful people are hiding dirty, dangerous secrets that theyll stop at nothing to protect.As they close in on the killer, the evidence begins to point to the unimaginable a revelation that could rock the entire world