Alex Cross Must Die by James Patterson is another thriller featuring one of Patterson’s most popular and iconic characters. This installment finds detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson fighting two separate killers in a race against time. When an American Airlines flight explodes in the sky, investigators find that an obscure Vietnam War-era weapon is responsible, though the culprit is still at large and ready to strike another airplane. Meanwhile, a serial killer is at work and Alex is stretched thin between the two cases while he races against his own potential destruction.