num_pages: 502
description: The classic thriller that launched the Alex Cross series, the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years! 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 who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read. Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan 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. It happens under the noses of Jezzie Flanagan's men. Now Alex Cross must face 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: Mike Fescoe and Bobby Hatfield, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Juan Corona, Joseph Denyeau, Simon Conklin, James Dowd, Kurt Weithas, Jim Garrison (Along Came a Spider), Maggie Rose Dunne, The man with the brimmed hat, Maria Cross, Gary Soneji, Gary Murphy, Artie Marshall and Chester Dils, Vivian Kim, Regina "Nana Mama" Cross, Special Agent McGoey, Missy Murphy, The Patino family, Martin Bayer, Emmett Everett, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Colin Powell, Louis Sullivan, and Jesse Jackson, Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Along Came a Spider), Marion Campbell (Along Came a Spider), Mr. Chakely, Charles Manson (Blood Test), Mrs. Quillie McBride and Mrs. Scott, Michael Goldberg, Ted Bundy (Along Came a Spider), Nina Cerisier, Wallace Hart, Aldo Moro, Jack Teich, R. Reginald Murphy, J. Paul Getty, Virginia Piper, and Victor E. Samuelson, Kyle Craig, Jose Canseco (Along Came a Spider), Carl Monroe, Lawrence Taylor (Along Came a Spider), Roger Graham (Along Came a Spider), Lee Kovel, Jenny Craig (Along Came a Spider), Anthony Nathan and Linda Kaplan, Bill Thompson, Charles Lindbergh (Along Came a Spider), Franz Kafka (Along Came a Spider), The National Star reporters, Alex Cross, Jimmy Moore, John Sampson, Nathaniel Hawthorne (Along Came a Spider), The Watergate scandal crowd (Along Came a Spider), Gloria Vanderbilt (Along Came a Spider), Jezzie Flanagan, The Sanders family, George "Jefe" Pittman, Jeane Dixon (Along Came a Spider)
genres: Mystery, Adult, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 449711
places: Washington, D.C.
series: Alex Cross
publisher: Grand Central Publishing