Now a free agent from the police and the FBI, he's set up practice as a psychologist once again. Years later, still haunted by his wife's death, Cross is making a bold move in his life. The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved drive-bys in D.C.'s rough neighborhoods. Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him.