Along Came a Spider - James Patterson [0]
Clive Cussler:
“As engrossing as it is graphic, Along Came a Spider is an incredibly suspenseful read with a one-of-a-kind villain who is as terrifying as he is intriguing. Has to be ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR.”
Ed McBain:
“All at once comes Along Came a Spider, with TERROR AND SUSPENSE THAT GRAB THE READER AND WON’T LET GO. Just try running away from this one.”
Washington Post Book World:
“Along Came a Spider is written simply, powerfully, with shifting points of view. The book will satisfy mystery and thriller fans, as well as students of the human condition. In Patterson’s Washington, THERE’S NOT A CARTOONISH POWER BROKER OR MARBLE MONUMENT IN SIGHT. ULTIMATELY, THE NOVEL’S FOUNDATION IS THE CHARACTER OF ALEX CROSS, detective, psychologist, and family man. Here’s hoping Patterson will bring him back in future novels. It would be nice to have him around.”
New York Times Book Review:
“JAMES PATTERSON DOES EVERYTHING BUT STICK OUR FINGER IN A LIGHT SOCKET TO GIVE US A BUZZ IN ALONG CAME A SPIDER. This psycho-thriller opens with a nice jolt when a serial killer with grandiose designs (“I want the fame I so richly deserve”) kidnaps two children from the private school in Georgetown where he teaches math, and demands an enormous ransom from their celebrity parents.”
New York Daily News:
“When it comes to constructing a harrowing plot, author James Patterson can turn a screw all right…. JAMES PATTERSON IS TO SUSPENSE WHAT DANIELLE STEEL IS TO ROMANCE.”
Milwaukee Journal:
“CROSS IS A COMPELLING FIGURE. There’s a depth to him that so many protagonists lack today. He’s tough, vulnerable, sensitive, compassionate.”
Ann Rule:
“Along Came a Spider is that rarity—a psychological thriller that truly breaks new ground as James Patterson brilliantly explores dark crevices of the aberrant mind. Detective Alex Cross is real and fascinating! Patterson lets us soar and dip with roller coaster thrills, and this reader lost a good night’s sleep. When can I meet Cross again? Soon, I hope. Spider is a sure winner; Cross is the fictional detective of the nineties!”
Nelson DeMille:
“Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I’ve come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season’s #1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name.”
People magazine:
“THREE STRONG CHARACTERS (CROSS, FLANAGAN, AND THE MURDERER) AS WELL AS A PRIME-TIME PLOT move Patterson’s sixth novel at far more than a spider’s pace. Patterson (The Midnight Club) knows how to sell thrills and suspense in clear, unwavering prose. In Alex Cross, who happens to be black, this Edgar Award winner has created a most compelling hero, a brainy cop afraid neither to bare his emotions (for his own two kids, for instance) nor to admit procedural error.”
Library Journal:
“ATTENTION GRABBING… PATTERSON’S STORYTELLING TALENT IS IN TOP FORM IN THIS GRISLY ESCAPIST YARN.”
Kirkus Review:
“MOVES BRISKLY… WITH A FINE NOIR TWIST WINDUP.”
Oakland Press:
“A tale with the polish of a master… MOVE OVER THOMAS HARRIS…. It’s the sort of tale that keeps your hands gripping the book and your heart pounding at any unusual noise in the house.”
Buffalo News:
“WILL RIVET EVEN THE MOST JADED READER. He creates a multilayered, convoluted plot that keeps readers off-balance, jolting them around narrative hairpin turns while transfixing them with an extraordinary sustained tension.”
Willamette Week:
“MORE THAN A MYSTERY. It’s a gripping retelling of one man’s struggle to unlock the secrets of a murderer’s mind—the first-person sections in the killer’s voice are especially effective—while keeping his own life together.”
Mostly Murder:
“Patterson has created a fast-moving, character-driven roller coaster of a thriller. The best thrillers leave the reader thinking about what scares them besides the obvious. The sublime terror beneath Along Came a Spider comes from our own system. Now that’s scary!”
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