I, Alex Cross – James Patterson Medium Size Hard Cover

James Barbour Matlock is a Vietnam veteran and college professor – but now the US government have an assignment for him. They want him to investigate what seems to be a large-scale dope and prostitution business; and they’ll go to any lengths to find the answers they need. cares for most are under threat. Would he have accepted the job if he’d known just what it would mean? the perfect man for the job – for a reason that is deadly, violent and extremely disturbing…

In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power – France is occupied, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under threat of invasion, America is neutral and Russia is in an uneasy alliance with Germany. Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American family, is a well-known man about town in occupied Paris. He’s also a minor asset in the US’s secret intelligence forces in Europe. Through a wild twist of fate, it falls to Metcalfe to instigate a bold plan that may be the only hope for what remains of the free world. Now he must travel to wartime Moscow to find, and possibly betray, a former lover – a fiery ballerina whose own loyalties are in question – in a delicate dance that could destroy all he loves and honours.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston; one that at first appears as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team—Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli—to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now.

Predator is proof once again that Patricia Cornwell has few peers with her extraordinary ability to entertain and enthrall.