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  • An Evil Mind by Chris Carter

    An Evil Mind by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the Sheriff's Department to arrest a man for a possible double homicide, but further investigations suggest a much more horrifying discovery - a serial killer who has been kidnapping, torturing and mutilating victims all over the United States for at least twenty-five years...
  • One by One by Chris Carter

    One by One by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    'I need your help, Detective. Fire or water?' Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins. But the caller doesn't want Detective Hunter to just watch, he wants him to participate, and refusal is simply not an option...
  • The Sixth Wicked Child by J.D. Barker

    The Sixth Wicked Child by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the riveting conclusion of the 4MK trilogy, Barker takes the thriller to an entirely new level. Hear No Evil For Detective Sam Porter, the words “Father, forgive me” conjure memories long forgotten; a past intentionally buried. For Anson Bishop, these three words connect a childhood to the present as he unleashes a truth concealed for decades...
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    crime  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Killing Season by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Killing Season by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Let it bleed. Watch it burn.The first shot punches through the windshield of an SUV. A head shot. The driver's death is instantaneous.By the time Special Agent Violet Darger arrives in Atlanta, the city teeters toward panic. The vacant streets and restaurants paint an eerie picture. No one dares to venture out.A killer walks among them. A shadow...
  • Malevolent by Jeff Menapace

    Malevolent by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After years of silence, the game is back on… Widower Allan Brown is hosting a support group in his home for the bereaved. One of the guests in attendance will be Amy Lambert, this week marking the five-year anniversary of her family’s horrifying ordeal at Crescent Lake. Of course it’s hardly cause for celebration...
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    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  killer
  • The Dead Tell Lies by J.F. Kirwan

    The Dead Tell Lies by J.F. Kirwan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If you want to catch a serial killer, you need to think like one.Greg Adams, a criminal psychologist at Scotland Yard, specialises in bringing serial killers to justice. He is at the top of his game, having just put away his sixth serial killer when his wife, Kate, is brutally murdered by another predator known as the Dreamer...
  • Arsonist by Victor Methos

    Arsonist by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Evil is Released Onto the Streets of San Diego...A series of deadly fires rages across the cityscape, claiming the lives of entire families. Helpless to stop the fires, the SDPD assigns their most famous detective, Jon Stanton, to the case. The evidence points him to a single arsonist committing the horrendous acts...
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    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  killer
  • Once Lured by Blake Pierce

    Once Lured by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ONCE LURED is book #4 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with the #1 bestseller ONCE GONE.Women are turning up dead on a lone stretch of highway in Delaware. Some go missing for an inexplicable length of time, while others are turning up dead, their bodies left out for display in bizarre and mysterious ways...
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    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final game is here… A decade has passed. The Lambert family is thriving. Amy Lambert is a successful entrepreneur and in a promising relationship with Allan Brown. Caleb Lambert is a respected member of the United States Marine Corps. Carrie Lambert is a flourishing college student. Or so they wish. Nothing could be further from the truth...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • Stolen: A Cassidy & Spenser Thriller by Carey Baldwin

    Stolen: A Cassidy & Spenser Thriller by Carey Baldwin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Is she missing…or a murderer? When Laura Chaucer, daughter of a U.S. senator, vanishes from her college campus, celebrated FBI profilers Special Agent Atticus Spenser and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy are called in. Thirteen years ago, Laura and her nanny disappeared from her family’s Denver home. Laura was found alive, but her nanny wasn’t so lucky… and the killer was never caught...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • I Kill Killers by S.T. Ashman

    I Kill Killers by S.T. Ashman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a genius pianist turned hunter of serial killers finds herself connected to her latest victim by an eerie twist of fate, her world spirals into dark chaos. Caught in a relentless game of cat-and-mouse with a tenacious FBI agent, she is also thrust into a dangerous face-off with a serial killer whose lethal cunning could rival her own...
  • Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He skins his victims alive, taking pleasure from their pain. In the cold, dark nights of Alaska, a hunter is stalking his prey. Once found, he takes them into the woods and skins them alive, prolonging the experience as much as he can, but the satisfaction always wanes.Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit have just finished up another case when they get the call...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DIE HARD meets TALK RADIO in this heart-pounding, relentlessly fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey—master of suspense, J.D. Barker. "I'm going to offer you a choice." Controversial satellite radio talk show host, Jordan Briggs, has clawed her way to the top of the broadcast world...
  • Eye Collector by Sebastian Fitzek

    Eye Collector by Sebastian Fitzek

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ready or not, here he comes...He plays the oldest children's game in the world, hide and seek. Only the Eye Collector plays it to death.It's the same each time. A woman's body is found with a ticking stopwatch clutched in her dead hand. A distraught father must find his child before the boy suffocates - and the killer takes his left eye...
  • The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie...
  • Profile K by Helen Sarah Fields

    Profile K by Helen Sarah Fields

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s going to kill you. He just doesn’t know it yet. There’s something wrong with me. For years I’ve hidden it. Suppressed it. Blended into society. But The Test awoke something within me. It was just a routine application designed to get to know me better – with results that would show me everything I was capable of...
  • Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    PLAYTIME IS NOT OVER...In Autumn of 2008, the Lambert family headed to western Pennsylvania for a weekend getaway to the family cabin.They visited hell instead...The Fannelli brothers. Two psychopaths who believed themselves exceptional, put on this Earth for the soul purpose of tormenting others for their own amusement. To make people play their twisted games...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier

    Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    WAKE UP, LITTLE DARLING. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE?He's looking for the perfect woman. Someone who won't disappoint him, like so many have before. Someone who'll love him ... someone who won't have to die for her mistakes.GIVE UP, LITTLE DARLING....FBI agent Mary Cantrell has been called to Minneapolis to hunt down a killer...
  • The Morning After (Pierce Reed/ Nikki Gillette) by Lisa Jackson

    The Morning After (Pierce Reed/ Nikki Gillette) by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    HIS VICTIMS . . . A woman is frantic as she awakens in a dark, closed space. From above her comes the muffled sound of cruel laughter, followed by the hard splatter of dirt. Pure terror takes over as she realizes she's being buried alive--and her last breath is a scream that no one but a sadistic killer will hear . . . WILL TAKE HIS SECRETS . .
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    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Divided House by J.M. Dalgliesh

    Divided House by J.M. Dalgliesh

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The public face. A private reality. Sometimes, the dead have a lot to hide...DI Nathaniel Caslin's life is a mess. He works the minimum, abuses substances to survive the day and drinks his nights away. A once-promising career is in freefall.Investigating the death of an ex-serviceman in police custody, reveals the disappearance of a young family. No-one noticed. No-one seems to care...
  • True Evil by Greg Iles, Dick Hill

    True Evil by Greg Iles, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dr. Chris Shepard, a busy young doctor in Natchez, Mississippi, has never seen his new patient Alex Morse before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face has come to Dr. Shepards office on a mission to catch a killer. This New York Times bestseller is available in a tall Premium Edition...
  • Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag

    Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    California, 1985. Four children, running in the woods behind their school, stumble upon a partially buried female body, eyes and mouth glued shut. Close behind the children is their teacher, Anne Navarre, shocked by this discovery and heartbroken as she witnesses the end of their innocence...
  • The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers by Jack Steen

    The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers by Jack Steen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions.My name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at an Asylum for the Criminally Insane, and most of my patients know me as their Angel of Death...
  • The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon

    The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED NOVELS OF 2023 - "A bravura feat of storytelling...daring and completely satisfying." --James Patterson, #1 best-selling author A PULSE-POUNDING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ABOUT A SERIAL KILLER NARRATED BY THOSE CLOSEST TO HIM: HIS 13-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, HIS GIRLFRIEND--AND THE ONE VICTIM HE HAS SPARED...
  • By Reason of Insanity by Shane Stevens

    By Reason of Insanity by Shane Stevens

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Thomas Bishop was twenty-five when he escaped from an institution for the criminally insane. Behind him was a grotesque history of pain, murder and rage. Ahead lay a path of horrifying vengeance that would trigger the most intense manhunt in history...
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    crime  suspense  true-crime  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror
  • Vicious by Kevin O'Brien

    Vicious by Kevin O'Brien

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    NO MOTIVE For more than two years, he held Seattle in a terror grip. A cold-blooded killer who abducted young mothers right in front of their sons and murdered them execution style. Then, as suddenly as the killings began, they seemed to stop.NO MERCY Susan Blanchette is looking forward to a relaxing weekend getaway with her fianc�, Allen, and young son, Matthew...
  • The List by Kiersten Modglin

    The List by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ten years ago, the small town of Bates, South Carolina was changed forever with the appearance of a slip of paper.Six names.Six people set to die.Six months later, they were gone. But the list maker was far from done with their town.Like clockwork, new lists come out every six months. To keep their names off of them, the citizens go to extraordinary lengths and keep terrifying secrets...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • Escape! by Iain Rob Wright

    Escape! by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Brand new Horror novel from acclaimed author Iain Rob Wright. Can you figure out the secrets of "the room" and escape before it's too late?Cheryl is about to learn that the people she works with are keeping a secret. One they are willing to kill for.Cheryl is the new girl at work, which is why she feels like she doesn't have a choice when she's asked to go on a "company outing...
  • Keep It In The Family by John Marrs

    Keep It In The Family by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this chilling novel from bestselling author John Marrs, a young couple’s house hides terrible secrets—and not all of them are confined to the past.Mia and Finn are busy turning a derelict house into their dream home when Mia unexpectedly falls pregnant. But just when they think the house is ready, Mia discovers a chilling message scored into a skirting board: I WILL SAVE THEM FROM THE ATTIC...
  • Hjerterått by Chelsea Cain

    Hjerterått by Chelsea Cain

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Gretchen Lowell is still on the loose.These days, she’s more of a cause célèbre than a feared killer, thanks to sensationalist news coverage that has made her a star. Her face graces magazine covers and there have been sightings of her around the world. Most shocking of all, Portland Herald reporter Susan Ward has uncovered a bizarre fan club that celebrates the number of days she’s been free...
  • The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters by Jack Steen

    The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters by Jack Steen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    They arrive alive. They leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions and this time - it's all about FAMILY.Inside this book are 4 DeathBed Confessions that relate to family issues:Patient 424 is a father who just wanted to protect his little girl.Patient 1001 is a pig farmer who never should have had children.Patient 523 wants you to believe he's the brother of a mob boss...
  • What She Forgot by S.W. Vaughn

    What She Forgot by S.W. Vaughn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    * This is an updated edition of this Kindle edition. *She'll do anything to get her daughter back. But can she uncover the dark secrets of her past in time to save her child? A gripping psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist. Madeline was sixteen when she was taken by the Singing Woods Killer, slated to become his fifth victim. She escaped, killing him in the process...
  • The Devil's Teardrop by Jeffery Deaver

    The Devil's Teardrop by Jeffery Deaver

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1999. After an early morning machine-gun attack by a madman called the Digger leaves dozens dead in the Washington, D.C., subway, the mayor’s office receives a message demanding twenty million dollars by midnight or more innocents will die...
  • Pretty Little Things by Jilliane Hoffman

    Pretty Little Things by Jilliane Hoffman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Thirteen-year-old Lainey Emerson is the middle child in a home police are already familiar with: her mother works too much and her stepfather favors his own blood over another man’s problems—namely Lainey and her wild older sister, Liza. So when Lainey does not come home from a Friday night out with her friends, it is dismissed by the Coral Springs P.D...
  • Flashback by Michael Palmer

    Flashback by Michael Palmer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Toby is eight years old. He had a routine operation. It was fine. Now he's gone home to terror. Months have passed. But Toby still bursts into tortured screams. Because something is very wrong. Toby can remember evey moment of the operation. All the trauma. All the pain. He relives evrey horrifying detail of surgery while he's awake...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  medical  murder
  • These Cold Strangers by J.T. Ellison

    These Cold Strangers by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a chilling tale about how a reporter’s deep dive into a viral video challenges her preconceived notions of what being a hero really means.When she recognizes the heroic stranger in a sensationalized news video, Addison Blake plans to use the information to her career’s advantage...
  • Strangers by Michaelbrent Collings

    Strangers by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    You wake up in the morning to discover that you have been sealed into your home. The doors are locked, the windows are barred. THERE'S NO WAY OUT.A madman is playing a deadly game with you and your family. A game with no rules, only consequences...
  • Watch Them Die by Kevin O'Brien

    Watch Them Die by Kevin O'Brien

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    DIFFERENT VICTIMS The blonde film student. The brunette paralegal. The red-headed artist. DIFFERENT METHODS The first victim is strangled. The second is stabbed repeatedly. And the third is pushed out of an open window.SAME MADMAN In the city of Seattle, no single woman is safe. From afar he watches the ones he so desperately wants. Willing to do whatever it takes to prove his love...
  • Two Can Play by Kate Kessler

    Two Can Play by Kate Kessler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a copy-cat killer arrives in the small New England town of Edgeport, criminal psychologist Audrey Harte must use all her skill to solve the case.Audrey has been hired by the prosecution to help prepare for the trial of 19-year-old serial killer Ian "Boy Scout" Monroe. His one surviving victim, Tori Scott, is the star witness, but when someone begins killing with Monroe's M.O...
  • Jack & Jill by James Patterson

    Jack & Jill by James Patterson

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. Senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed 'Jack and Jill' promising that this is just the beginning. The two are out to get the rich and famous. They will stop at nothing until their fiendish plan is carried out.Meanwhile, Washington, D. C...
  • Ripper by Michael Slade

    Ripper by Michael Slade

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Cutthroat comes a nerve-shattering thriller combining the legend of Jack the Ripper, the terrifying secrets of the Tarot, and a "mystery weekend" on a secluded Canadian island, whereurder becomes all too real...
  • The Cadaver Factory by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton

    The Cadaver Factory by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jack Rally is an eighteen-year-old boy who is evil and witty. He receives an opportunity from an older film-maker named Mr. Bigsley whose films are films of actual murders. Jack takes the opportunity and runs with it, becoming a master of his murderous profession...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Killing Jane by Stacy Green

    Killing Jane by Stacy Green

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What if everything you've ever heard about Jack the Ripper is wrong ... A young woman is brutally murdered in Washington D.C., and the killer leaves behind a calling card connected to some of the most infamous murders in history...
  • Theodore The Neighbour's Cat by J.S. Ellis

    Theodore The Neighbour's Cat by J.S. Ellis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My roommate is a serial killer.And I have been powerless to stop him because I... am a cat.Don’t get me wrong, Dean has never been cruel to me. He provides me with shelter, toys, and plenty of affection. But I have seen his dark side, his brutal treatment of women, and I can’t bear to watch anyone else get hurt.Jane from next door is attractive for a human, not to mention being incredibly kind...
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    crime  suspense  adult  animals  anthologies  cats  fiction  horror
  • The Meat Hunter by Megan Allen

    The Meat Hunter by Megan Allen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Molly Bishop grew up on a farm and was horrified by her father’s indifference toward the animals they raised, viewed only as slabs of flesh to be consumed by a ravenous society. Now a seductive and cunning young woman, she seeks out the cruelest members of the meat industry and offers up her own brand of redemption. Molly’s mission is clear...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  anti-hero  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Random Acts by Franklin Horton

    Random Acts by Franklin Horton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A grieving young woman, a disturbed young man, and identity theft meet in this terrifying tale of obsession, suspense, and social media.Amanda Castle was like a lot of young people, posting pictures of her everyday life to a variety of social media sites. Not everyone who viewed her pictures was there to share in her life. One was there to steal her profile pictures...
  • The Final Scene by Steph Nelson

    The Final Scene by Steph Nelson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The cabin is unlocked, but there’s no escape. When Brooke was kidnapped on her way home from work, she thought her life was over.That was ten years ago.She’s been held captive in an isolated cabin on the Oregon coast ever since, scrambling to follow her kidnappers’ twisted instructions to the letter. Because the price of a mistake is death.But when a new victim shows up, everything changes...
  • Kiss the Girls by James Patterson

    Kiss the Girls by James Patterson

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In Washington D.C. Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing - and they are working coast to coast...
  • Victim Without a Face by Stefan Ahnhem

    Victim Without a Face by Stefan Ahnhem

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Face is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.Criminal investigator Fabian Risk has left Stockholm with his wife, Sonja, and their two children to start fresh in his hometown of Helsingborg. He has planned a six-week vacation before he starts a new job at the Homicide Department...
  • London Bridges by James Patterson

    London Bridges by James Patterson

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    TWO OF THE GREATEST VILLAINS JAMES PATTERSON HAS EVER CREATED IN ONE BOOK!Minutes after soldiers evacuate a Nevada town, a bomb completely destroys it. On vacation, FBI agent Alex Cross gets the call: the blast was perpetrated by the Wolf. A supercriminal and Cross's deadliest nemesis, the Wolf threatens to obliterate major cities, including London, Paris, and New York...
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