Alex Cross · Book 35
Cross and Sampson
- Published
- 9 February 2026
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780316599849
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Cross and Sampson" (2026, 368 pages), credited to James Patterson and Brian Sitts, is the newest Alex Cross novel, following "Return of the Spider" and continuing the series' three-decade run of pairing Cross with his oldest friend and partner John Sampson against another theatrical case.
Its place in Alex Cross
Cross and Sampson is book 35 in the Alex Cross series. It follows Return of the Spider. See the full Alex Cross reading order.
Dr. Alex Cross is a Washington, D.C. homicide detective and forensic psychologist — a widowed father raising his family in Southeast D.C. with the help of his indomitable grandmother, Nana Mama. That home life is the series' anchor, because everything else in Cross's world is chaos: James Patterson has spent three decades throwing history's most theatrical serial killers and criminal masterminds at him, from Gary Soneji in Along Came a Spider to Kyle Craig, the Mastermind, whose vendetta spans many books. The…
Editions
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