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 How do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath?
language: French
title: Le masque de l'araignee / Along Came a Spider
titlecomplete: Le masque de l'araignee / Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, Book 1)
characters: The Patino family, Charles Lindbergh (Along Came a Spider), The National Star reporters, Jenny Craig (Along Came a Spider), Franz Kafka (Along Came a Spider), Lawrence Taylor (Along Came a Spider), Roger Graham (Along Came a Spider), Alex Cross, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ted Bundy (Along Came a Spider), Marion Campbell (Along Came a Spider), Carl Monroe, Maggie Rose Dunne, James Dowd, The man with the brimmed hat, Simon Conklin, Joseph Denyeau, Kurt Weithas, Artie Marshall and Chester Dils, Jimmy Moore, Special Agent McGoey, Jezzie Flanagan, Nina Cerisier, Vivian Kim, Mrs. Quillie McBride and Mrs. Scott, John Sampson, Jeane Dixon (Along Came a Spider), Michael Goldberg, Gary Murphy, Regina "Nana Mama" Cross, Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Along Came a Spider), Mike Fescoe and Bobby Hatfield, Gary Soneji, Emmett Everett, Wallace Hart, Charles Manson (Blood Test), Mr. Chakely, Anthony Nathan and Linda Kaplan, George "Jefe" Pittman, Lee Kovel, Aldo Moro, Jack Teich, R. Reginald Murphy, J. Paul Getty, Virginia Piper, and Victor E. Samuelson, Colin Powell, Louis Sullivan, and Jesse Jackson, The Sanders family, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Juan Corona, The Watergate scandal crowd (Along Came a Spider), Martin Bayer, Jim Garrison (Along Came a Spider), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Along Came a Spider), Gloria Vanderbilt (Along Came a Spider), Kyle Craig, Missy Murphy, Bill Thompson, Maria Cross, Jose Canseco (Along Came a Spider)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Detective, Adult, Audiobook
ratings_count: 449713
places: Washington, D.C.
series: Alex Cross
publisher: Lattès