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Alex Cross, Run

Alex Cross • Book 20

by James Patterson

Narrated by Michael Boatman, Steven Boyer

4.31 ABR Score (37.2K ratings)
★ 4.12 Goodreads (34.9K) ★ 4.44 Audible (2.3K)
8h 3m Released 2013 Thriller

Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Michael Boatman has been Alex Cross for so long that hearing someone else narrate would feel like a casting mistake — and book 20 gives him plenty to work with.

  • Great if you want: multiple interlocking thriller threads at relentless Patterson pace
  • Listening experience: short chapters, high momentum — disappears in a commute week
  • Narration: Boatman owns this character; Boyer handles secondary voices cleanly
  • Skip if: you're new to the series — 20 books of baggage shows here

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About This Audiobook

Alex Cross, Run delivers three simultaneous threats to the Washington DC detective: a plastic surgeon with a grudge, a series of escalating murders by what appear to be three separate serial killers, and a shadow pursuer whose obsession with Cross is personal in ways he has not yet recognized. Patterson keeps the novel's short chapters firing across all three storylines, maintaining the series' kinetic pace while building toward a convergence of threats.

Michael Boatman and Steven Boyer share the narration duties with an efficiency that suits Patterson's rapid-fire chapter structure. Their delivery keeps Cross's professional and personal voices distinct, and the multi-narrator format mirrors the novel's fragmented focus without creating confusion. At eight hours the novel moves fast, and the performers maintain that momentum from the opening pages.