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Alex Cross · Book 31

Cross Down

by Brendan DuBois and James Patterson
Published
5 June 2023
Pages
496
ISBN-13
9780316404594
Type
novel
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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.

Key facts about Cross Down

Brendan DuBois and James Patterson wrote Cross Down, a novel on our list. It has been out since 5 June 2023. The book has 496 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780316404594 to find the main one.

Cross Down is book 31 of 35 in the Alex Cross series. The series has 35 published books. However, the series starts with Along Came a Spider (1993). Cross and Sampson is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 9 February 2026.

Additionally, James Patterson writes Women's Murder Club, Honeymoon and Michael Bennett, plus 12 more series. Those series sit on our thriller, science fiction thriller and legal thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Delusional is the latest published James Patterson book on file, from 17 August 2026.

About James Patterson

James Patterson is an American author widely regarded as one of the bestselling and most prolific novelists in publishing history, with hundreds of books credited to his name across thrillers, young-adult fiction and non-fiction. See every James Patterson book in order.

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…

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