Audio Book Description:
FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation withhis family in Disneyland when he gets a call from the director. A top actress has been shot outside her home inBeverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail recounting the murderin shocking detail, sighned MarySmith. The authorities fear this is onlythe beginning. More killings follow, andmore e-mails arrive immediately after. Mary Smith is targeting Hollywood starsand power brokers, and she is getting better every time. Right from the start this case is like nothing Alex has ever confronted before. Could this be theplan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part ofsomething much more terrifying? And how could a woman be capable of these vicious crimes?People make enemies easily in Hollywood.To track down a merciless killer, Alex must navigate aworld where the stars and players sip San Pellegrino at theIvy as hopefuls hover around studio gates armed with 8x10 glossies. Every- one is desperate for a close-up, but this isone fan Hollywood could dowithout. Members of the A-list fear they`re next on Mary`s list, and the case catapults into blockbuster pro- portions as Cross and the LAPD scrambleto find a pattern before Mary can send her chilling update.
