Hardcover. Brand new aside from some sticker residue on the front of the dust jacket. Summary: Alex Cross’s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, they’re being bought and sold. It looks as if a shadowy figure, the Wolf — a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organized crime — is behind the business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI’s vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau’s clumsiness & caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the castle boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancée, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life — and not for the reasons Alex might’ve hoped.