The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene, but someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark and meanwhile, a deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced.
year: 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: drinking water, contamination, fiction, kidnapping, investigation, african american detectives, cross, alex (fictitious character), washington (d.c.), fiction, mystery fiction