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Cross Country

Alex Cross • Book 14

4.05 ABR Score (48.0K ratings)
★ 3.89 Goodreads (46.1K) ★ 4.18 Audible (1.9K)
7h 21m Released 2008 Thriller

Why Listen to This Audiobook?

When Alex Cross's friend is the victim, the case stops being professional — and that changes everything about how this chase plays out.

  • Great if you want: high-stakes thriller with personal stakes and international intrigue
  • Listening experience: propulsive and dark — Patterson's short chapters keep it relentless
  • Narration: Fernandez and Graham split the transatlantic tension effectively
  • Skip if: you find the later Alex Cross books formulaic

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About This Audiobook

A massacre at the Washington home of one of Alex Cross's oldest friends draws him into pursuit of a killer known as The Tiger, whose organized teenage army operates with a brutality and discipline that Cross has never encountered before. When the trail goes cold in America, Cross follows it alone to Nigeria, arriving in a world where the rule of law is a foreign concept and The Tiger operates with impunity in the chaos of a failed state. The fourteenth Alex Cross novel pushes the series into new geographical and moral territory, confronting Cross with the limits of American law enforcement in a global underworld.

Peter Jay Fernandez and Dion Graham share narration duties in a dual-cast performance that gives the novel's shifting perspectives additional texture. Their voices carry different registers appropriate to Cross's Washington life and to the foreign environment he enters, and the contrast between the two settings is reinforced by the change in narrators. At under eight hours, Cross Country is one of the shorter entries in the series, delivering considerable forward momentum.