Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes- but nothing as preternaturally gruesome as the murders of two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The local police are horrified, the FBI is baffled. Are they dealing with vampires or some other kind of beast-. Alex is called in as the carnage spreads across America. Now Alex's nemesis, the merciless criminal known as the Mastermind, will stalk and taunt him, and, once again, threaten everything he holds dear…