eBook Special Feature: Includes "The Alex Cross Dossier" and an excerpt from Along Came a Spider.

Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has everencountered—a predator known only as the Wolf.

Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleaguesstymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broaddaylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not beingtaken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And itlooks like a shadowy figure known as the Wolf—a master criminal whohas brought a new reign of terror to organized crime—is behind thisbusiness in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves.

Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows impatientwith the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lonewolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf andtry to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive.

As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. Hisex-fiancée, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life—andnot for the reasons Alex might have hoped.

With rollercoaster twists and whiplash surprises, this is another brilliantly paced novel from America's best-selling thriller writer.