Join Alex Cross in a heart-stopping thrill ride as he pieces together the clues of two gruesome murders. Will he find the killers in time? 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  clue: 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 victim: a beautiful little girl, savagely beaten and deposited in front of the elementary school Cross's son attends. 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 Jillproves that no one can write a more compelling thriller than James Patterson, the master of the nonstop nightmare.