This rating also comes after reading, and being quite annoyed with, the previous book in the series, Cross My Heart. It was good, but the cliffhanger of an ending, as I said at the time, so reeked of promotion for this one that I almost vowed on principle not to read the follow-up. A sequel based on Double Cross was in discussion in 2012. [6] [7] [8] Perry was confirmed to reprise his role. [9] However, the film was cancelled after Alex Cross did not perform well at the box office. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. In 2012, the novel was adapted into a film, titled Alex Cross, starring Tyler Perry as Alex Cross and Matthew Fox as The Butcher (renamed Picasso in the film). The psychotic and evil Thierry Mulch had kidnapped Detective Alex Cross’ entire family – his beautiful wife Bree, Nana Mama and the children, Damon, Jannie and Ali had all been taken from Cross. He was distraught, terrified and also bewildered as he tried to ascertain the reason behind it all. With his entire squad behind him, working the case with feverish speed; the FBI and every law enforcement agency getting into the act; still Cross felt helpless.

Hope to Die draws its plot from the conflict between detective Alex Cross and doctor Marcus Sunday. The vendetta that drives the plot stems from a deontological Mulch wants Cross to detour from his ethical schema and devoid himself from any system of value that may render him vulnerable to emotional connections.To Mr. Patterson and publishers: The action and interplay among the characters is wonderful, yet I can no longer see past the concept. Killers continue to stalk the stalker and his family with a predictable outcome. I have the sense that the 21st and 22nd installments of this successful series are more about profit than passion. James Patterson didn’t get around to introducing Alex Cross, his most popular character (to date), until 1993. Since then, Patterson and Cross have become household names. Cross is an interesting character, not so much because of who he is or what he does as the type of villain he attracts. You can talk about Patterson’s strengths and weaknesses as an author, but no one has created as many truly frightening, over-the-top villains as he has. The worst of them, alas, seem to go after Cross, with varying degrees of success before succumbing to failure. Sometimes. So how many books does an author get to write before editors ignore their work and just put it out there? Obviously, James Patterson hit that number a long time ago. The earlier novels were initially named after children's rhymes, but from 2006 the lead character's name started appearing in the titles. [1] I have read all of the Alex Cross books. I used to read the Women’s Murder Club books until they became writing by formula. I refuse to read the books co-authored by him after the first one, they are terrible. Now I ask myself, am I going to give up on Alex Cross?

Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages. DOUGLAS PRESTON and LINCOLN CHILD Alex Cross is one of the best-written heroes in American fiction, and each Cross novel further defines what it means to be a professional, a husband, a father, and above all, a man. Lisa Scottoline HOPE TO DIE, the newly published novel in the Cross canon, begins immediately after 2013’s CROSS MY HEART. That worthy book featured Thierry Mulch, an adversary as frightening and dangerous as any that Cross has ever faced. While other criminals have threatened his family before, none have done so with the effectiveness and cold-blooded intent of Mulch. CROSS MY HEART chronicled Mulch’s success in abducting Cross’ entire family --- all three generations of it --- and taunting him with a photograph that purported to show their dead bodies. O'Connor, Clint (18 October 2012). " 'Alex Cross': Tyler Perry becomes James Patterson's detective in new thriller: Review". The Plain Dealer . Retrieved December 17, 2012. powerful screen presence Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn't forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent—which is what James Patterson has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it. Lee Child

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Hope to Die is the sequel to Cross My Heart. It represents the 22nd installment in the wildly successful Alex Cross series by James Patterson. With that in mind, I called up my review of book 21, which I read in 2014. It seems to apply in this instance as well. To summarize: I love Patterson's machine gun writing style, but find the premise of the Alex Cross series tired and unrealistic, i.e. a cunning criminal crosses Cross, kidnapping and conceptually killing Cross' kin. Convoluted? Not really. Familiar? You bet. Crestfallen, Cross comes close to collapsing with concern. Calling upon his copious cranial components, Cross keeps coming, climactically crushing the callous creep. Hope To Die is the 22nd book in the popular Alex Cross series by prolific American author, James Patterson. It follows on directly from the cliff-hanger that ended Cross My Heart, so cannot really be read without reading that book first. Thierry Mulch has kidnapped and supposedly killed all the members of Alex Cross’s family. But Ava, the runaway Nana Mama took in, gives Alex hope that all is not lost. James Patterson is a prolific writer and he used to be a good one. It is sad to see that all change. Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind. MICHAEL CONNELLY

Alex Cross is a crime, mystery, and thriller novel series written by James Patterson. The series focuses on Metropolitan Police Department detective and father Alex Cross as he faces threats to his family and the city of Washington, D.C. Supporting characters include two of Cross's children, Damon, and Janelle, as well as his grandmother Nana Mama. The series is usually narrated in first-person perspective by Alex Cross, and occasionally from the villains' point of view in third-person.This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged. STEVE BERRY, bestselling author of the Colton Malone series Alex Cross's Trial (2009): In this story within a story concept, Alex writes about one of his ancestors, Abraham Cross. Find sources: "Alex Cross"novel series– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( June 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)