Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)

by James Patterson

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The spectacular international bestseller that introduced Washington-based homicide detective Alex Cross and launched James Patterson's career as one of the fastest-selling thriller writers in the world -- now reissued in striking new cover style. He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids, it was headline news. Then one of them was found -- dead -- and the whole nation was in uproar. For such a high-profile case, they needed the top people -- Alex Cross, a black detective with a PhD in psychology, and Jezzie Flanagan, an ambitious young Secret Service agent -- yet even they were no match for the killer. He had the unnerving ability to switch from blood-crazed madness to clear-eyed sanity in an instant. But was he the helpless victim of a multiple-personality disorder -- or a brilliant, cold-blooded manipulator?
  • ISBN10 0316693642
  • ISBN13 9780316693646
  • Publish Date 25 March 1993 (first published 26 January 1993)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Atlantic Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 448
  • Language English