TY - BOOK AU - Patterson, James, TI - Alex Cross must die T2 - Alex Cross SN - 9781529136609 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2023/// CY - London : PB - Century, KW - Cross, Alex KW - Police KW - Fiction KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Serial murder investigation KW - Aircraft accidents KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N2 - When an American Airlines plane explodes in the sky, detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson are first on the scene. They don't hear the gun fire. At first. The weapon that took down the plane is a remote-controlled Vietnam-War-era machine gun. The list of those who possess the training and expertise to operate the stolen, .50-caliber weapon is short. And time runs even shorter. But this isn't the only case the pair must solve. They're also tracking a serial killer who's ambushing young men in what the media are calling the 'Dead Hours' murders. With two killers and two different motives, Cross and Sampson are in a deadly race against time ER -