Pop Goes the Weasel

Now that he's returned, detective Alex Cross is in love. However, a series of unsettling killings in Washington, D.C., with a pattern so bizarre that it leaves detectives in disbelief, jeopardize his happiness. Geoffrey Shafer, a British ambassador, is one of the suspects that Cross finds while pursuing the murderer. However, establishing his guilt becomes a potentially fatal undertaking. Alex and his fiancée find themselves trapped in a never-ending battle with the most remarkable foe Cross has ever encountered as Shafer unleashes a masterful sequence of unexpected countermoves.