London, Frankfurt, New York, and Washington, DC, will be destroyed unless terrorists’ impossible demands are met. After a city in the western United States is bombed, Alex Cross knows it is only a matter of time before the bombers' threats to the other cities are brutally executed. Cross is stunned when surveillance photos show Geoffrey Shafer—the Weasel—near one of the bombing sites. He senses the presence of "the Wolf" as well, the most vicious predator he has ever battled. With millions of lives in the balance, Cross has to see if the most powerful law enforcement agencies in the world can stay ahead of these two cunning men.