The clock is ticking. London's burning. Alex Cross is here.

A dream holiday turns into a horrifying nightmare... A chilling novel of suspense from the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller

The sequel to Silence of the Lambs marks the return of Dr Hannibal Lecter. One of Hannibal's victims, the influential and rich Mason Verger - a paraplegic confined to a respirator thanks to Hannibal - is bent on revenge and FBI agent Clarice Starling provides the perfect bait.

Ambitious Assistant County Prosecutor and head of the Prosecutor's homicide unit, Stella Marz, finds not only her ambition but her survival threatened when her ex-lover Jack Kovak, a drug lawyer, is murdered and Stella leads the investigation.

Tormented with guilt over the slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to track down a missing girl. But, he is also warned by an old woman that 'The Travelling Man' is about to strike again. Multiple strands converge with a horrific confrontation in which the hunter and the hunted are connected by guilt.

What makes a serial killer? Only one man really knows. John Douglas. A man who has looked evil in the eye and made a vocation of understanding it. Now retired, Douglas can let us inside the FBI elite serial crime unit and into the disturbed minds of some of the most savage killers in the world.