Despite the cascade of justice, Cross leaves off at the end of the novel unsatisfied, having still not found the Wolf. Through him, the agents manage to capture the Wolf’s rival, another human trafficking operator. The Sphinx turns out to be Lizzie’s husband, Mr. Sorokin brings the FBI to the Sphinx, the only remaining member of the Wolf’s inner circle. They chase down Sorokin who, after being caught, professes not to be the Wolf. There, they find the judge’s wife, Lizzie, alive. Cross arranges a sting operation at Sorokin’s mansion in Florida. After interrogating Lipton, he leads the FBI to Pasha Sorokin, presumed to be the Wolf. Lipton is an influential member of the Dallas elite. Forcing Potter to become an informant, they track down Lawrence Lipton, the man who handles the money. Potter, he had bought Benjamin Coffey and another young student named Francis Deegan. After the young hacker’s report, the FBI starts paying more attention to chat rooms. His youngest son’s mother tries to gain full custody, and his girlfriend, Jamilla, stays in San Francisco, so he depends on his grandmother to watch over the kids. Cross, becoming obsessed with the case, has trouble managing his family life. The man kills himself before the FBI can extract information. This allows Audrey Meek to be released and provides clues to tracking down the man who purchased her and held her captive, an art director. Cross and the FBI make strides in the case when a teenage girl manages to hack in. Meanwhile, the Wolf and his clients contact each other in a secure online chat room where they negotiate orders and explain their fantasies. Also, the kidnappers demand no ransom and have no clear motive. The FBI connects these cases because they follow a similar pattern, having been carried out in broad daylight by a single man and woman without attention to the presence of witnesses. The criminals also take a young man named Benjamin Coffey. The next abductee is Audrey Meek, a famous fashion designer. A string of other kidnappings quickly occurs after Lizzie’s. The seriousness of the case initially intimidates Cross, who is both new to the FBI and trying to create a stable family life, spending as much time as possible with his kids and his girlfriend. police department, due to his track record of solving similar cases. The FBI assigns Cross, who has recently moved over from the Washington, D.C. The FBI puts the case on high priority since she is the wife of a judge. The beautiful and lovely mother of two daughters, she is abducted in broad daylight in a parking garage at the mall. Lizzie Connoly, the victim, hails from an upper-class area of Atlanta called Buckhead. The novel begins with the abduction case of a federal judge’s wife. When the FBI fails to find the Wolf, Cross takes the case into his own hands, tracking down the Wolf as a vigilante. With a small group of clients willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars per person, the Wolf sells them people so they can make their sexual fantasies possible. He pinpoints the string of crimes on a mastermind known as the Wolf, who has made a lucrative and dangerous business out of organized crime. Cross realizes that these people are not being held hostage, but rather sold to human trafficking rings. The ninth novel in a series called Alex Cross, it follows the eponymous protagonist Cross, who is handed a case where seemingly ordinary and random men and women across the country are being kidnapped in public. The Big Bad Wolf (2003) is a thriller by the prolific American writer James Patterson.
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