title: Cross Kill: An Alex Cross Story (BookShots)
author:  James Patterson 
description: James Patterson has written more bestsellers and created more enduring fictional characters than any other novelist writing today. He lives in Florida with his family.<br />
zlib_text: **UNDER ATTACK**
  
  My words were cut off by the sound of a blade slicing through the air. I felt
  a body make contact with mine, then the wind as it left my chest when I fell
  onto the cold, damp concrete. I only knew Alex had been hit when I heard the
  strangled sound of his groan.
  
  “Sophie, run!”
  
  Everything seemed to be happening in slow motion and Alex’s command didn’t
  even sound like him. It was higher, more menacing, and I kicked my feet,
  sliding on the concrete until I got some traction, then stopped dead, seeing
  the dark figure in front of Alex.
  
  Our attacker was dressed entirely in black and stood a half-head taller than
  Alex, his face obscured by a black knit ski mask that only revealed sinister
  hooded eyes, which remained fixed on us.
  
  He held his blade aloft once more and I heard my own scream when I saw the
  blood—Alex’s blood—dripping from the cold steel ...
  
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