This takes a leap back in time to the early 1900's when the USA was a very different place to now. America was still segregated on colour and the black man was oppressed and discriminated against.A Washington DC lawyer called Ben Corbett takes on an assignment from the President to face up to injustices down south. Corbett returns to his southern home town and uncovers disgraceful prejudice and violence, with the spectre of the Klu Klux Klan on the warpath.
Ben has the help of Abraham Cross one of Alex Cross's ancestors. Alex Cross learns of the story from his Nana Mama (grandmother). We get to learn a bit of the Cross family history and also a depiction of some US life at the time.
Not really a full Alex Cross novel for me as he is hardly in it at all and also we learn nothing of his family life moving on either. If you are expecting a novel with Alex Cross bona fide novel then you will be slightly disappointed. However if you want a good yarn of good triumphing over evil with a historical flavour then this is right up your street.
A 7/10 for me because I missed Alex Cross.
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