num_pages: 449
description: What have we got? A missing little girl named Maggie Rose . . . a family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. . . . the thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher . . . a psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him - even after he's been captured.Gary Soneji wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the first female supervisor of the Secret Service. They complete one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read. Alex and Jezzie are about to have a forbidden love affair—at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji is playing at the top of his game. The latest of the unspeakable crimes happens in Alex Cross's precinct and it happens under the nose of Jezzie and her men.Alex faces the ultimate test: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath?
language: English
title: Along Came a Spider
titlecomplete: Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)
characters: Charles Manson (Blood Test), The Patino family, Jim Garrison (Along Came a Spider), Gary Murphy, The Watergate scandal crowd (Along Came a Spider), James Dowd, Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Along Came a Spider), Mrs. Quillie McBride and Mrs. Scott, John Sampson, Special Agent McGoey, Colin Powell, Louis Sullivan, and Jesse Jackson, Gary Soneji, Anthony Nathan and Linda Kaplan, Jimmy Moore, The Sanders family, Martin Bayer, Kurt Weithas, Maggie Rose Dunne, Jezzie Flanagan, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ted Bundy (Along Came a Spider), Marion Campbell (Along Came a Spider), Joseph Denyeau, Gloria Vanderbilt (Along Came a Spider), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Along Came a Spider), Charles Lindbergh (Along Came a Spider), Regina "Nana Mama" Cross, Mr. Chakely, Jeane Dixon (Along Came a Spider), Nina Cerisier, Jenny Craig (Along Came a Spider), Roger Graham (Along Came a Spider), Bill Thompson, Lee Kovel, Alex Cross, The National Star reporters, Missy Murphy, George "Jefe" Pittman, Maria Cross, Kyle Craig, Artie Marshall and Chester Dils, Michael Goldberg, The man with the brimmed hat, Mike Fescoe and Bobby Hatfield, Wallace Hart, Emmett Everett, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Juan Corona, Lawrence Taylor (Along Came a Spider), Franz Kafka (Along Came a Spider), Aldo Moro, Jack Teich, R. Reginald Murphy, J. Paul Getty, Virginia Piper, and Victor E. Samuelson, Simon Conklin, Jose Canseco (Along Came a Spider), Vivian Kim, Carl Monroe
genres: Audiobook, Thriller, Detective, Crime, Suspense, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 449673
places: Washington, D.C.
series: Alex Cross
publisher: Grand Central Publishing