Along Came a Spider

Author James Patterson
Narrator Ako Mitchell
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 4 October 2018
Run Time 12 hours and 1 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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Now an Amazon Prime series starring Aldis Hodge as Alex Cross. This is the very first thriller in James Patterson's international bestselling series featuring forensic psychologist Alex Cross.

Two children have been kidnapped from an elite private school in Washington DC, and Detective Alex Cross is charged with finding them.

The kidnapper's identity is quickly determined as one of the children's teachers. But capturing him is the true challenge.

As Cross gets pulled deeper into the strange world of the kidnapper, it becomes clear he is far more dangerous than anyone could have anticipated.

'Alex Cross is a legend' Harlan Coben
'A character for the ages' Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
'Alex Cross. . . only gets better and better' Lisa Scottoline
'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it' Lee Child

© James Patterson 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2018

Critics Review

Brilliantly terrifying! So exciting that I had to stay up all night to finish it! Packed with white-knuckle twists.

DAILY MAIL

An incredibly suspenseful read with a one-of-a-kind villain who is as terrifying as he is intriguing. One of the best thrillers of the year.

CLIVE CUSSLER, bestselling author of the Dirk Pitt Adventures

I wrote, “Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I’ve come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season’s no. 1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name.” A household name, indeed.

NELSON DEMILLE

Terror and suspense that grab the reader and won’t let go. Just try running away from this one.

ED MCBAIN, bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series

[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages.

DOUGLAS PRESTON and LINCOLN CHILD

Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn’t forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent – which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.

LEE CHILD, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

Alex Cross is a legend.

HARLAN COBEN

It’s no mystery why James Patterson is the world’s most popular thriller writer: his uncanny skill in creating living, breathing characters we truly feel for and seamless, lightning-fast plots. I do this for a living, and he still manages to keep me guessing from the first to last page … Simply put: Nobody does it better.

JEFFERY DEAVER

Every once in a while a writer comes along and fundamentally changes the way people read. He or she is so bright, so innovative, so industrious that what they envision and create becomes the measure by which all others are judged. In 1993 one such writer – James Patterson – began to do just that … James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged.

STEVE BERRY, bestselling author of the Colton Malone series

Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It’s what fires off the movie projector in the reader’s mind.

MICHAEL CONNELLY

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