Alex Cross · Book 31
Cross Down
- Published
- 5 June 2023
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN-13
- 9780316404594
- Type
- novel

About this book
"Cross Down" (2023, 496 pages) is told mostly from the perspective of Cross's oldest friend and partner John Sampson rather than Cross himself, making it -- alongside the historical "Alex Cross's Trial" -- one of the series' two entries usually treated as optional rather than essential reading.
Its place in Alex Cross
Cross Down is book 31 in the Alex Cross series. It follows Triple Cross. It is followed by Alex Cross Must Die. 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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316404693
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781538710746
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781529136708