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: English
title: Along Came A Spider
titlecomplete: Along Came A Spider
characters: The Sanders family, Simon Conklin, Anthony Nathan and Linda Kaplan, Maria Cross, The Watergate scandal crowd (Along Came a Spider), Jose Canseco (Along Came a Spider), John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Juan Corona, Charles Manson (Blood Test), Aldo Moro, Jack Teich, R. Reginald Murphy, J. Paul Getty, Virginia Piper, and Victor E. Samuelson, Nina Cerisier, Nathaniel Hawthorne (Along Came a Spider), Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Along Came a Spider), Martin Bayer, Michael Goldberg, Gary Murphy, James Dowd, Lee Kovel, Jim Garrison (Along Came a Spider), Gary Soneji, Jenny Craig (Along Came a Spider), Jimmy Moore, Alex Cross, Maggie Rose Dunne, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Charles Lindbergh (Along Came a Spider), Kurt Weithas, Franz Kafka (Along Came a Spider), Vivian Kim, Gloria Vanderbilt (Along Came a Spider), Carl Monroe, The man with the brimmed hat, Wallace Hart, Roger Graham (Along Came a Spider), Lawrence Taylor (Along Came a Spider), Special Agent McGoey, John Sampson, Missy Murphy, Jezzie Flanagan, Mrs. Quillie McBride and Mrs. Scott, Artie Marshall and Chester Dils, Kyle Craig, Joseph Denyeau, The National Star reporters, Regina "Nana Mama" Cross, George "Jefe" Pittman, Emmett Everett, Jeane Dixon (Along Came a Spider), The Patino family, Ted Bundy (Along Came a Spider), Mike Fescoe and Bobby Hatfield, Mr. Chakely, Marion Campbell (Along Came a Spider), Colin Powell, Louis Sullivan, and Jesse Jackson, Bill Thompson
genres: Fiction, Detective, Crime, Thriller, Adult, Audiobook, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 449817
places: Washington, D.C.
series: Alex Cross
publisher: Harper Collins