Kay had many enemies, but all of them seemed to need her alive. There they find a world of trouble, corruption, and secrets, all of them closed to outsiders like Cross and Mahoney. They travel to Alabama to investigate Kay's early years. While John Sampson of DC Metro Police investigates the last movements of Christopher Randall, the educator killed along with Kay Willingham, detective Alex Cross and FBI special agent Ned Mahoney find unanswered questions from Willingham's past, before she arrived in DC and became known in DC society as someone who could make things happen.
So why was she parked in a Bentley convertible idling behind a DC private school, in the middle of the night, with the man who was the head of that school? Who shot them both, point blank, and why? The shocking double homicide is blazed across the internet, TV, newspapers-and across Alex Cross's mind. Kay Willingham led a life as glamorous as it was public-she was a gorgeous Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and the ex-wife of the vice president. The murder of a glamorous DC socialite becomes Alex Cross’s deadliest case since Along Came a Spider.
