num_pages: 390
description: In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre. The police turn up only one a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill" promising that this is just the beginning. Jack and Jill are out to get the rich and famous, and they will stop at nothing until their fiendish plan is carried out.Meanwhile, Washington, D. C., homicide detective Alex Cross is called to a murder scene only blocks from his house, far from the corridors of power where he spends his days. The a beautiful little girl, savagely beaten--and desposited in front of the elementary school Cross's son, Damon, attends.Could there be a connection between the two murders? As Cross tries to put the pieces together, the killer- or killers - strike again. And again. No one in Washington is safe - not children, not politicians, not even the President of the United States. Only Alex Cross has the skills and the courage to crack the case-but will he discover the truth in time?A relentless roller coaster of heart-pounding suspense and jolting plot twists, Jack and Jill proves that no one can write a more compelling thriller than James Patterson--the master of the nonstop nightmare.
language: German
title: Sonne, Mord Und Sterne
titlecomplete: Sonne, Mord Und Sterne (Alex Cross, #3)
characters: Walter Annenberg, Rakeem Powell, Aiden Cornwall, David Letterman (Jack & Jill), Commissioner Clouser, Mrs. Johnson (Jack & Jill), Edward Mahoney, Alex Cross, Shanelle Green, Aldrich Ames (Jack & Jill), Colonel Wilson, Katarina Witt (Jack & Jill), Sojourner Truth (Jack & Jill), Thomas Henry Franklin, Emmanuel Perez, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Don Hamerman, Kevin Hawkins, Roger the Artful Dodger, John Sampson, Michael Goldberg, "Jill", Vernon Wheatley, Jerome Thurman, Regina "Nana Mama" Cross, Monica Seles (Jack & Jill), Michael Robinson, Mr. Tinaka, Maryanne Maggio, Boris Yeltsin (Jack & Jill), Gary Soneji, Natalie Sheehan, Alvin Jackson, Jimmy Kee, Loy McCoy, George "Jefe" Pittman, Jay Grayer, Casanova (Kiss the Girls), Sam Harrison (Jack & Jill), Danny Boudreaux, The man with the balloons, Jeanne Sterling, Dr. Adele Finaly, Benedict Arnold (Jack & Jill), Kyle Craig, Thomas Byrnes (Jack & Jill), The investigator (Jack & Jill), Kate McTiernan, Sara Rosen
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Adult, Audiobook
ratings_count: 78864
places: New York City, New York, McLean, Virginia, San Francisco, California, Washington, D.C.
series: Alex Cross
publisher: Bastei-Verlag Gustav H Lubbe