Alex Cross, Run
Alex Cross, Run is the 20th novel in the Alex Cross series by author James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross arrested plastic surgeon Elijah Creem on charges of sleeping with teenage girls. Alex’s life is ruined, Creem is released from prison and changes his face for revenge.
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Prologue
Die Young and leave a beautiful corpse
It’s not every day that I get a naked girl answering the door I knock on
Don’t get me wrong
With 20 years of law enforcement under my belt
It’s happened
Just not that awesome
Are you the waders
This girl laughs
There was a bright but empty look in her eyes that said ecstasy to me
And I could smell weed from inside
The music was stopping to
The kind of Relentless techno that would make me want to slit my wrists if I had to listen to it along
No we’re not the waiter I told her
Showing my badge
Metro Police
And you need to put something on right now
She wasn’t even fazed
There were supposed to be Waiters
She said to no one in particular
It made me sad I’m disgusted at the same time
This girl didn’t look like she was even out of high school yet
And the man we were here to arrest we’re old enough to be her father
Checkered clothes before she put them on
I told one of the female officers on the entry team
Myself they were five uniforms cops
A rep from using Family Services
Three detectives from the prostitution unit
And three more from 2nd District
Including my friend John Sampson
Second District
Nothing usual stomping grounds for the prostitution unit
The white brick and Street townhouse
Typical for the neighborhood
Probably work somewhere north of million
It was a rental property paid six months in advance by proxy
But the paper trail cream
One of DC’s most in-demand plastic surgeon
As far as we could make out
Cream was funneling funds to pay for these industry parties
And his partner in scum Josh Bergman
What providing the eye candy
Berkman was the owner of Cap City dolls
Modeling agency based out of an M Street office
With a heavily rumored arm in the underground flesh trade
Detectives at the department were pretty sure that while Bergman was running his aboveboard agency
He was also dispatching exotic dancer
Overnight escort masseuses and Talent with the other
As far as I could tell the house was filled with Talent right now
And they all seem to be about 18
More or less
Emphasis on the left
I couldn’t wait to bust these two scumbags
Surveillance to put cream in Bergman downtown at night
And then here at the party house as of 9:30
Now it was just a game of smoking them out
Beyond the enclosed foyer
The party was in full swing
The front hall and formal living room
It was all Queen Anne furniture and parquet floors on the one hand half-dressed tweaked-out
Shout kids stopping to the music
And drinking out of plastic cups on the other
I want everyone contained in this front room
Sampson shouted at one of the uniform
We got an anytime Warren for this house so start looking
We’re checking for drugs cash appointment book cellphone everything
Goddamn music
We left half the team to secure the front of the house
And took the rest toward the back where there was more party going on
In the open kitchen there seemed to be a big game of strip poker in progress at the large marble top Island
Half a dozen well-muscled guy twice as many girls in their underwear were standing around holding cards
Drinking and passing a few joints
Several of them scramble that we came in
A few of the girls screamed and tried to run out
But we already blocks away
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