Double Cross

Alex Cross is drawn into a case involving two of the most diabolical killers of his career: a psychotic showman who commits spectacularly staged murders for an audience that does not yet know it is watching, and a villain from Cross's past whose return threatens everything. The thirteenth Alex Cross novel is one of the series' most structurally ambitious, pairing its two antagonists in ways that create a mounting sense that Cross is being surrounded rather than simply challenged.

Peter Jay Fernandez and Michael Stuhlbarg share narration duties in a production that gives the dual-villain structure its appropriate tonal range. Fernandez's Cross is authoritative and determined, and Stuhlbarg brings a distinct menace to the antagonist sequences. At just over eight hours, Double Cross is an efficient thriller entry that moves at the pace the series' format demands.