FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family and Disneyland when he gets a call from the director. A top actress has been shot outside her home at Beverly hills. Shortly afterwards, and editor for the Los Angeles Times receives the email reaccounting the murder and shotgun detail, signed Mary Smith. The authorities fear this is only the beginning. More killings follow, and more emails arrive immediately after. Mary Smith is Target in Hollywood stars and power brokers, and she's getting better every time. Right from the start, this case is nothing like Alex has ever encountered before. Could this be the plan of an obsessed vein or a spurred actor, or is it part of something much more terrifying? And how could a woman be capable of all these vicious crimes? People make enemies easily in hollywood. To track down a merciless killer, Alex must navigate a world where the stars and players zip Pellegrino at the IV as hopefuls hover around Studio Gates armed with 8x10 glosses. Everyone is desperate for a close up but this is one fan Hollywood could do without. Members of the A-list fear that they're next on Mary's list, and the case catapults into Blockbuster proportions as cross in the LAPD scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update.

ISBN: 9780316159760