Along Came a Spider
Along Came a Spider (25th Anniversary Edition) is a mystery thriller. It is the opening chapter in An Alex Cross Thriller novel series. The book is written by James Patterson who is a good name when it comes to writing intriguing mystery and suspense thrillers. Among his best books, you will find The Cornwalls Are Gone one of them. Moreover, The 8th Confession is also a very good book that James Patterson has written.
The audio narration of this one is done by Taye Diggs. The narrator and the given performance were awesome. It was quite easy to get into and stay tuned with the story and the characters throughout. Alex Cross had Ph.D. in psychology and he was a homicide detective. He lived and worked in the ghettos of Washington D. C. He looked just like the famous Muhammad Ali looked in his prime. He was a tough guy and hailed from a very tough part of the town. He used to wear the Harris Tweed jackets and loved to relax by playing a tune on his baby grand piano. But, he also had a couple of cute kids and those were his vulnerabilities as well.
Jezzie was the very first woman who held the extremely sensitive job as the supervisor of the Secret Service which was in Washington. She was highly mysterious, blond, and seductive. She was also the one with an outer shell that looked to be as tough as it was beautiful. But what was her secret and what she was running from?
This book will hold your attention from the start and will push you to pick the second book in the series once you are done with this one.
