Alex Cross ist ein erfahrener schwarzer Polizist mit einem Universitätsabschluss in Philosophie. Mit seiner ebenso attraktiven wie ehrgeizigen FBI Kollegin Jezzie Flanagan bildet er ein nahezu unschlagbares Team. Doch dann treffen sie auf einen Killer, der ihnen ebenbürtig zu sein scheint. Als er zwei Jugendliche aus gutem Haus entführt und einer davon bald tot aus einem Fluss gezogen wird, werden beide bis zum äußersten gefordert.
Along Came a Spider begins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the secretary of the Treasury. And that's only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read.
Along Came a Spider begins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the secretary of the Treasury. And that's only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read.