num_pages: 6
description: Along Came a Spider begins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the secretary of the Treasury. And that's only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read.
language: English
title: Along Came a Spider
titlecomplete: Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)
characters: Roger Graham (Along Came a Spider), Wallace Hart, Jose Canseco (Along Came a Spider), The Watergate scandal crowd (Along Came a Spider), Carl Monroe, James Dowd, The Sanders family, Gloria Vanderbilt (Along Came a Spider), Mr. Chakely, Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Along Came a Spider), Gary Murphy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., John Sampson, Colin Powell, Louis Sullivan, and Jesse Jackson, Simon Conklin, Marion Campbell (Along Came a Spider), Lawrence Taylor (Along Came a Spider), Kyle Craig, The man with the brimmed hat, Bill Thompson, Jim Garrison (Along Came a Spider), Aldo Moro, Jack Teich, R. Reginald Murphy, J. Paul Getty, Virginia Piper, and Victor E. Samuelson, Mrs. Quillie McBride and Mrs. Scott, Mike Fescoe and Bobby Hatfield, Jezzie Flanagan, Martin Bayer, Charles Manson (Blood Test), Nina Cerisier, The National Star reporters, Michael Goldberg, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Juan Corona, Lee Kovel, Regina "Nana Mama" Cross, Maggie Rose Dunne, Maria Cross, Missy Murphy, Jimmy Moore, George "Jefe" Pittman, Franz Kafka (Along Came a Spider), The Patino family, Joseph Denyeau, Special Agent McGoey, Artie Marshall and Chester Dils, Ted Bundy (Along Came a Spider), Vivian Kim, Jeane Dixon (Along Came a Spider), Anthony Nathan and Linda Kaplan, Nathaniel Hawthorne (Along Came a Spider), Alex Cross, Kurt Weithas, Gary Soneji, Emmett Everett, Jenny Craig (Along Came a Spider), Charles Lindbergh (Along Came a Spider)
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Murder Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 449744
places: Washington, D.C.
series: Alex Cross
publisher: Hachette Audio