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: English
title: Jack & Jill
titlecomplete: Jack & Jill (Alex Cross #3)
characters: Sam Harrison (Jack & Jill), "Jill", Jimmy Kee, Emmanuel Perez, Loy McCoy, Maryanne Maggio, John Sampson, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Edward Mahoney, Aiden Cornwall, Natalie Sheehan, Mr. Tinaka, Kyle Craig, Alvin Jackson, David Letterman (Jack & Jill), Dr. Adele Finaly, Mrs. Johnson (Jack & Jill), Michael Robinson, Katarina Witt (Jack & Jill), Sara Rosen, Roger the Artful Dodger, Kate McTiernan, Michael Goldberg, The investigator (Jack & Jill), Colonel Wilson, Sojourner Truth (Jack & Jill), Jerome Thurman, Thomas Byrnes (Jack & Jill), Regina "Nana Mama" Cross, Benedict Arnold (Jack & Jill), Danny Boudreaux, Thomas Henry Franklin, George "Jefe" Pittman, Rakeem Powell, Jay Grayer, Walter Annenberg, Boris Yeltsin (Jack & Jill), Aldrich Ames (Jack & Jill), Kevin Hawkins, Monica Seles (Jack & Jill), Shanelle Green, Gary Soneji, Don Hamerman, Jeanne Sterling, Casanova (Kiss the Girls), Commissioner Clouser, Vernon Wheatley, The man with the balloons, Alex Cross
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Murder Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 78884
places: New York City, New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, California, McLean, Virginia
series: Alex Cross
publisher: Little, Brown & Company