From the back cover: The only way to stop Alex Cross…is to kill him. Detective Alex Cross is on the biggest case of his career. The president’s son and daughter have been abducted from their school. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone very powerful doesn’t want him too close. Then a deadly contagion in the Washington, DC, water supply threatens to cripple the capital. Alex is already working hard on the kidnapping. This harbinger of the most devastating attack in US history could push him completely over the edge. With each hour that passes, the chance of finding the president’s children alive diminishes. Now Alex must make a decision that goes against everything he believes…