Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man, appeared posthumously.

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Detective Alex Cross has lost everything and everyone he's ever cared about. 
 
His enemy, Thierry Mulch, is holding his family hostage. Driven by feelings of hatred and revenge, Mulch is threatening to kill them all, and break Cross for ever. 
 
But Alex Cross is fighting back. 
 
In a race against time, he must defeat Mulch, and find his wife and children - no matter what it takes. 
 
THE END-GAME HAS BEGUN.

Hope to Die

(Alex Cross 22)

TARGET: HEAD OF STATE 
 
Alex Cross and his family join men and women from across the nation lining the streets of Washington, DC to mourn the unexpected death of the president. 
 
TARGET: UNITED STATES CABINET 
 
With the country still in shock, the assassination of a prominent senator strikes another devastating blow to the heart of the nation's capital. 
 
TARGET: ALEX CROSS 
 
Cross is called on to lead the FBI investigation to find America's most wanted criminal. But what follows will plunge the country into chaos, and draw Cross into the most important case of his life.

Target: Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 26)

ALEX CROSS IS GOING HOME. 
 
BUT WHAT WILL HE FIND WHEN HE GETS THERE? 
 
When his cousin is accused of an unthinkable crime, Detective Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades. 
 
As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where justice is hard to find, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known. 
 
Chasing the ghosts of his past, Cross gets pulled into a case involving a string of murders. Now he's hot on the trail of a cold-hearted killer - and the answers he finds could be fatal.

Cross Justice

(Alex Cross 23)

Detective Alex Cross has three killers to hunt, and one to escape . . . 
 
Pulled in every direction by three different investigations, Alex Cross has never been under more pressure. 
 
And with a crisis at home that threatens to tear his family apart, Cross's attention is divided. 
 
While Cross tracks the killers, he doesn't notice that someone is tracking him.

Alex Cross, Run

(Alex Cross 20)

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'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 
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The fifteenth novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series 
 
Detective Alex Cross delves deep into the past - to a story passed down through his family, of a courageous fight for freedom... 
 
Alex Cross is one of the nation's foremost detectives. But fighting for justice runs in the family, and it's time for Cross to tell the story that was passed down to him from his grandmother - the story of his great-uncle Abraham. 
 
Ben Corbett is lawyer to the underprivileged and downtrodden in 1900s Washington, DC. Out of the blue, President Theodore Roosevelt invites Ben to the White House, asking him to investigate a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in Ben's own home town. 
 
Ben returns to Mississippi, and there he meets Abraham Cross and his granddaughter, Moody. Abraham and Moody reveal to Ben the hidden side of this sleepy Southern town, where the Black community lives in constant fear. 
 
In a battle against entrenched hatred, what sacrifices will need to be made to break this reign of terror?

Alex Cross's Trial

(Alex Cross 15)

Alex Cross is being hunted. 
 
Now his predator is priming himself for the kill. 
 
Detective Alex Cross is investigating a string of violent murders in Washington, DC with his partner, Detective John Sampson. 
 
Little does Cross know he is being stalked by his biggest foe yet, an elusive psychopath fixated on Cross and the thing he loves most: his family. 
 
One by one, everyone is being taken from Alex and if he doesn't act fast, he'll lose everything... 
 
'Alex Cross is a legend.' HARLAN COBEN

Cross My Heart

(Alex Cross 21)

They came for his family. Now Detective Alex Cross is out for vengeance. 
 
Cross is met with shocking news that his niece has been brutally murdered. He vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that his niece was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. 
 
Cross finds himself confronting some very important, very protected, very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain - they will do anything to keep their secrets safe. 
 
As Cross closes in on the killer, he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable - a revelation that could rock the entire world.

I, Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 16)

A killer's trail leads Detective Alex Cross to Africa - and a whole new world of danger . . . 
 
Detective Alex Cross is called to a murder scene in Washington DC and is devastated to discover an old friend amongst the victims. 
 
His pursuit of justice leads him to the Niger Delta, right into the den of the psychopathic perpetrator: the Tiger. 
 
As Alex travels deeper into this dangerous world of corruption and conspiracy, his own survival is on the line . . .

Cross Country

(Alex Cross 14)

On the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Cross's phone rings, he knows that this won't be a merry Christmas. 
 
A father has taken his children and ex-wife hostage. Armed to the teeth and high on crystal meth, the man is dangerously unstable. The lives of everyone in that house are hanging by a thread. 
 
As this suburban nightmare is unfolding, another far greater threat is approaching. It will be a terrorist attack on a scale never before seen in Washington, DC, and when nobody expects it.

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 19)

Could a ghost from his past take everything away from Alex Cross? 
 
Only hours after witnessing the execution of a killer he helped put behind bars, Alex Cross is called to the scene of a copycat murder. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse: 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' 
 
Was an innocent man just put to death? As the executed convict's family launch a vicious campaign against Cross, his abilities as a detective are called into question. 
 
The enigmatic 'M' lures Cross out of Washington, DC to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details that conjure up decades-old cases and Cross family secrets. 
 
Details that make it clear M is planning to destroy much more than Cross's reputation.

Criss Cross

(Alex Cross 27)

The twenty-eighth novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series 
 
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'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 
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A scandalous double homicide opens the psychological case files on Alex Cross... 
 
When a glamorous socialite and a high school principal are found murdered, the shocking double homicide dominates tabloid headlines. 
 
Detective Alex Cross knew both victims well, especially Kay who had been his patient once. And maybe more. 
 
Alex's former Metro Homicide Partner tracks the slain principal's final movements to Alabama where Alex investigates Kay's past. They discover that although she had many enemies, all of them needed her alive. 
 
The more the investigators push, the more resistance they find, and Alex is left facing a desperate choice between breaking trust and losing his way.

Deadly Cross

(Alex Cross 28)

A sniper has Washington's corrupt elite in their sights. 
 
When two of the most corrupt people in politics are assassinated by a skilled sniper, Detective Alex Cross is called to action. 
 
As more crooked politicians are picked off, the media frenzy intensifies. Public opinion is divided - is this anonymous marksman a villain or a hero? 
 
As Cross investigates the case, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary and his worst fears come true. 
 
The Mastermind is in DC, and this time he won't stop until Cross and his family are dead . . .

Cross Fire

(Alex Cross 17)

Detective Alex Cross is stretched to breaking point as two killers hit Washington, DC 
 
A controversial senator is found murdered in his bed. On the other side of town, a young girl has been savagely killed. Under pressure to solve both cases, Cross is faced with an impossible choice. 
 
No one in Washington is safe, but can Cross discover the truth before the killers set their sights on their ultimate target?

Jack and Jill

(Alex Cross 3)

The President's children have been kidnapped. 
 
Detective Alex Cross is investigating the shocking crime, but someone powerful is trying to keep him off the case. 
 
Just days later, a deadly contagion in the DC water supply threatens to cripple the capital, and Cross fears that the stakes are much higher than he first thought - America is under attack. 
 
If Cross stands a chance of finding the missing children and preventing an event that could change the fate of the nation, he must make a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes in.

Kill Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 18)

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