The murder of a glamorous DC socialite becomes Alex Cross’s deadliest case since Along Came a Spider. Kay Willingham led a life as glamorous as it was public—she was a gorgeous Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and the ex-wife of the vice president. So why was she parked in a Bentley convertible idling behind a DC private school, in the middle of the night, with the man who was the head of that school? Who shot them both, point blank, and why? The shocking double homicide is blazed across the internet, TV, newspapers—and across Alex Cross's mind. Kay had been his patient once. And maybe more. While John Sampson of DC Metro Police investigates the last movements of Christopher Randall, the educator killed along with Kay Willingham, detective Alex Cross and FBI special agent Ned Mahoney find unanswered questions from Willingham's past, before she arrived in DC and became known in DC society as someone who could make things happen. They travel to Alabama to investigate Kay's early years. There they find a world of trouble, corruption, and secrets, all of them closed to outsiders like Cross and Mahoney. Kay had many enemies, but all of them seemed to need her alive. The harder the investigators push, the more resistance they find when they leave behind the polite law offices and doctors' quarters of the state capital. Alex Cross will need to use all his skills as a doctor, a detective, and a family man to prevent that resistance from turning lethal . . . again.

Americas relentless search for terrorists coupled with heretofore unknown and covert eavesdropping techniques and other invasions have uncovered a uniquely coded message between Afghanistan and Mexico. The translation, if it is to be believed, is alarming. Arab terrorists are going to smuggle a Russian into the United States. A retired former special ops CIA agent, Zack Sinclair is brought back in to go undercover in Mexico to find the Russian before he arrives in the United States. Zack learns that funding and transportation for the Russian are financed by a Guadalajaran banker for a drug cartel that has corrupted the border and politicians, making Sinclairs task perilous and deadly. A tenuous relationship evolves with a member of the banking family that controls the critical sale of drugs to finance the movement of the Russian to the United States. Their relationship puts them both in mortal danger as the body count rises. When the CIA learns the real reason for the Russians arrival in the Unites States, Sinclair alone must find him at all costs, or the results will be Americas worst nightmare.

Without making the Old Testament a pacifist book, Enz shows how it prepares the way for the peaceful Messiahship of Jesus in almost every one of its major themes.... The book is simple and speaks immediately to every Christian, and yet the scholar in the field will recognize a great breadth of learning and a profound scholarly integrity behind almost every apparently simple statement."" Waldemar Janzen in The Mennonite Jacob J. Enz, Ph.D., was educated at Bethel College, New York Theological Seminary, Divinity School of the University of Chicago and received his Ph.D. from John Hopkins University. He served as a pastor of the First Mennonite Church in Indiana and served on faculties at Goshen College, Bethel College and the Mennonite Biblical Seminary, IN. He also served as editor of The Mennonite and has contributed to the Journal of Biblical Literature.

The trust of events in McDougall's highly charged narrative brings alive the key figures on this stage. The Unions four most successful generals served together in only this one campaign, which was the last for the controversial Braxton Bragg.