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Informationen zum Autor JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 375 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades - the Alex Cross! Women's Murder Club! Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader! he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School! I Funny! Treasure Hunters! House of Robots! Confessions! and Maximum Ride series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. Klappentext It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is at home with Bree! Nana! and his children. The tree decorating is barely underway before his phone rings - a horrific hostage situation is quickly spiralling out of control. Away from his own family on the most precious of days! Alex calls upon every ounce of his training! creativity! and daring to save another family. Cross is a hero for our time! and never more so than in this story of family! action! and the deepest of moral choices. MERRY CHRISTMAS! ALEX CROSS will be a holiday classic for years to come. Zusammenfassung The 19th novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series Detective Alex Cross is called into action on Christmas Eve - and he'll be lucky to see the New Year? Celebrating Christmas with his family! Alex Cross knows that his phone ringing means this won't be a Merry Christmas. A drug-crazed father has taken his own family hostage! and the lives of the Fowler family depend on Cross. But it's not just them. As the suburban nightmare unfolds! so too does a far greater threat - a terrorist attack like Washington has never seen! and Cross is caught right in the middle? ...
