CROSS & SAMPSON by James Patterson (epub)(Fiction) Author: James Patterson (with Brian Sitts)
Full title: Cross and Sampson: An Alex Cross and John Sampson Thriller (Alex Cross #35)
Length: ~400 pages
Publication date: Early 2026
Genre: Fiction; crime thriller; police procedural
Long‑time partners Alex Cross and John Sampson are forced to “divide and conquer” when two major cases break at once.
In Washington, DC: Metro PD detective John Sampson stands in a smoking crater after a street explosion, calling in bomb squad, FBI, and ATF as a suspected terrorist—or serial bomber—begins striking apparently random public targets and killing innocent people.
In Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Alex Cross searches the ransacked apartment of his missing son Damon, a psychology grad student and activist. Cross and Bree confront indifferent local police, campus racism, and academic secrets as Alex tries to separate his instincts as a detective from his terror as a father.