The latest in the bestselling series featuring fiction's original pathologist, Dr Kay Scarpetta.

As Peter Carlyle waves his wife, children and brother-in-law off on a sailing holiday, all they have in mind is lying back and relaxing. But as a violent storm breaks out, an explosion causes the boat to vanish and the family are lost, presumed dead. Until now. When a message in a bottle is washed up on a shore.

When Alex Cross is called to investigate a murder scene, he is shocked to find that the victim is an old friend. Cross begins the hunt for the perpetrators of this cruel crime. He is drawn into a dangerous underworld of Washington DC that leads him on a journey to the Niger Delta where heroin dealing, slave trade and oil and gas theft are rife.

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She's Pilgrim Hospital's most unusual patient, and the media is gathered to record every minute of her visit to the X-ray department. Maura is there because the patient being scanned tonight isn't alive. She's probably been dead for centuries. She is, in fact, a mummy. As the CT scan proceeds, everyone gasps as an image of a bullet is revealed.