Along Came a Spider

Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series that is the inspiration for the #1 streaming series Cross! 

Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a PhD in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast Washington, DC, where in between investigating tough cases, he also raises his two young children—with help from his beloved grandmother, Nana Mama. They are the key to his heart—and his own special vulnerabilities.
 
Jezzie Flanagan is a tall blond who rides a black BMW motorcycle she revs to 100 mph. Her outer shell is tough enough to protect the sensitive information she handles as the supervisor of the Secret Service—but is it enough to protect her from her own worst impulses? 
 
Gary Soneji is every parent’s worst nightmare. A mild-seeming man who uses his position to commit the “crime of the century,” modelled after the historical crimes that obsess him. In pursuit of his victims, Soneji’s outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. 
 
Soneji has become Alex Cross’s nightmare. In Return of the Spider, he’s about to become yours.
 

• “James Patterson does everything but stick our finger in a light socket to give us a buzz in Along Came a Spider.”
  New York Times Book Review
• “Cross is one of the great creations of thriller fiction."
  Dallas Morning News
• “Along Came a Spider will satisfy mystery and thriller fans, as well as students of the human condition.  In Patterson’s Washington, there’s not a cartoonish powerbroker or marble monument in sight... Patterson also creates, in Alex Cross, a lead character rich in dimension... Ultimately, the novel’s foundation is the character of Alex Cross, detective, psychologist, and family man.”
  George P. Pelecanos, Washington Post
• “When it comes to constructing a harrowing plot, author James Patterson can turn a screw all right.”
  New York Daily News
• “Patterson knows how to sell thrills and suspense... In Alex Cross, this Edgar Award winner has created a most compelling hero, a brainy cop afraid neither to bare his emotions nor to admit procedural error.”
  People