Cross Country pdf

James Brendan Patterson (né le 22 mars 1947) est un auteur américain. Parmi ses œuvres figurent les séries Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women's Murder Club, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, NYPD Red, Witch and Wizard et Private, ainsi que de nombreux thrillers autonomes, non-fiction et romans d'amour. Ses livres se sont vendus à plus de 400 millions d'exemplaires et il a été le premier à vendre 1 million de livres électroniques. En 2016, Patterson était en tête de la liste Forbes des auteurs les mieux payés pour la troisième année consécutive, avec un revenu de 95 millions de dollars. Son revenu total sur une décennie est estimé à 700 millions de dollars.
En novembre 2015, Patterson a reçu le Literarian Award de la National Book Foundation, qui l'a cité comme un "militant passionné pour faire des livres et de la lecture une priorité nationale. Un généreux partisan des universités, des collèges d'enseignants, des librairies indépendantes, des bibliothèques scolaires et des étudiants. , Patterson a fait don de millions de dollars en subventions et bourses dans le but d'encourager les Américains de tous âges à lire plus de livres."
Patterson était candidat au doctorat à Vanderbilt et a obtenu un emploi dans la publicité. Il était directeur de la publicité chez J. Walter Thompson. Après avoir pris sa retraite de la publicité en 1996, il se consacre à l'écriture. Sa plus grande influence, a-t-il dit plus tard, était probablement le premier roman d'Evan S. Connell en 1959, Mrs. Bridge.

Cross Country pdf par James Patterson

When the home of Alex Cross's longtime friend Ellie Cox is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, he is devastated. The destruction leads him to believe that he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer. As Alex and his girlfriend Brianna Stone begin the hunt for the villain responsible for the killings, they quickly find themselves entangled in the deadly Nigerian underworld of Washington, D.C. What they discover is shocking: a strongly organized gang of teenage thugs headed by a powerful, diabolical man The Tiger.
As the killing spree escalates, Alex and Brianna realize they are not dealing with any ordinary killer, but one who has brought his personal war of vengeance to America's capital. But just when the detectives think they're closing in on the elusive murderer, the Tiger disappears into thin air. Unable to let the killer get away with this narrow escape, Alex makes it his duty to bring the brutal butcher to justice. He knows that he must follow the Tiger. Alone.
When Alex arrives in Nigeria, he discovers a world where justice is as foreign as he is. Unprotected and alone in a strange country, bombarded on all sides by the murderous threats of The Tiger, Alex must draw on his fiercest instincts just to survive in a lawless world.
"THE HARDEST MYSTERIES to solve are the ones you come to near the end, because there isn't enough evidence, not enough to unravel, unless somehow you can go all the way back to the beginning-rewind and replay everything. I was riding in the lap of comfort and civility, my year-old Mercedes. I was thinking about how odd it was to be going to a murder scene now. And then I was there, leaving my vehicle, and feeling conflicted about going over to the dark side again."