description: Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years, now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads"Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities.Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she's got an outer shell that's as tough as it is beautiful. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. What is she running from? What is her secret?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, who wants to commit the "crime of the century," is playing at the top of his game. Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?Gary Soneji is every parent's worst nightmare. He has become Alex Cross's nightmare. And now, reader, he's about to become yours.
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: 449677
places: Washington, D.C.
series: Alex Cross
publisher: Little, Brown Company