Jimmy Galati

Jimmy Galati aka Hats and Jimmy the Protector is the posthumous main hidden antagonist of the Alex Cross novel Cross. Galati is the accomplice and right-hand lieutenant of Michael Sullivan, "The Butcher of Sligo". Galati is the real killer of Alex Cross's wife, Maria, who was always suspected of having died at the hands of Sullivan but was really killed to be silenced. John Sampson admits he and Rakeem Powell murdered Hats so Cross wouldn't become a killer, never telling for years so cross wouldn't break down from not getting personal revenge. After Cross kills The Butcher and finds out the truth, he moves on.