A brilliant criminal known only as the Mastermind orchestrates a series of bank robberies that are notable for their very precise demands - and their explosive violence when the demands are not met exactly. Detective Alex Cross takes on the case and recognises that a particular kind of criminal mind is at work. But before he gets near identifying the suspect, the Mastermind pulls off the most outrageous kidnapping scheme in U. S. history - and walks away with the largest ransom ever paid...
- ISBN10 0446605484
- ISBN13 9780446605489
- Publish Date 1 October 2001 (first published 1 January 1960)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Time Warner Trade Publishing
- Imprint Warner Books Inc
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 416
- Language English