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  <default_description>A missing little girl named Maggie Rose. A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher. A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh. He is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him-even after he's been captured.  &lt;P&gt;Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He's so popular that the kids all call him &quot;Mr. Chips.&quot; And he's very, very smart. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them-he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He's done it before. Hundreds of times before.  &lt;P&gt;Alex Cross must face the ultimate test as a psychologist: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? Especially one who appears to have a split personality-one who won't let the other half remember those horrific acts?  &lt;P&gt;Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are looking for an engrossing mystery page-turner, this fits. It is mindless and fast...definitely a good plane read.<br/><br/>Gary Soneji/Murphy, a brilliant psychopathic serial killer who just wants to be somebody, kidnaps two prominent children to gain exposure and notoriety. He desperat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39529966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ALONG CAME A SPIDER (Police Procedural/US/Cont) – Poor<br/>Patterson, James – 1st in series<br/>Warner Books, 1992- Paperback<br/>The daughter of a famous actress and son of the secretary of the Treasury has been kidnapped.  The boy's body is found and the kidnapper demands that Detective Ale...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5098663">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the first of the alex cross novels, i was very surprised by the characterization of cross. i guess there is a lot of development over time, but the cross that i was introduced to in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=mary, mary" title="mary, mary">mary, mary</a> is only like this cross in a peripheral way - reminded me of bad fanfic. if you think trashy thrillers don'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1474312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah the lure of mass market fiction... I often refer to Patterson novels as &quot;TV for your brain&quot;. Page turning, edge of your seat excitement? Yes. Intellectually challenging? Not particularly.<br/><br/>This is the first introduction to character Alex Cross, a DC detective whose differentia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42590535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A reasonably scripted thriller with some cringe-worthy lines that should never have gotten past a high school-educated editor.  Alex Cross is a black, working class police detective in Washington, D.C., which was refreshingly different for a hero in a procedural thriller.  The story moved along and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42225811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a big James Patterson fan.  I love the pacing of his novels.  He doesn't waste a lot of time in character development, because these are not egg-headed tomes in the vein of Agatha Christie.  No, Alex Cross is a man of intelligence, but more so a man of action.  And action is what you get, both ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47590556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had the same complaints with this book as I have with the others in Patterson's Alex Cross series.  With that said, I also had the same praises... plus some.<br/><br/>This book was much, much <em>longer</em> than his others seemed to be.  There was more to the plot, more complex theories, more characters...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62632559">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[where to start.<br/><br/>I fell in love with J.Pat after reading his Maximum Ride series in about... a week. then i read his other kids book, the dangerous days of Daniel X. very good. <br/><br/>but Along Came a Spider surprised me. <br/><br/>he continued his style that i love-- not being afra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64199507">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book. This is the start of the Alex Cross series, chronicling the cases and mysteries of D.C. homicide detective and psychologist Alex Cross. This particular story is a very complex thriller/mystery. First the reader is introduced to Alex's feelings about the injustice of the D.C. police, as he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65753263">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find it very interesting after several books,he picks titles that are so non-obvious. This really gives an element of surprise, such as with &quot;When the Wind Blows,&quot; and the picture of a big old house on the front-not at all what I expected by the title and bookcover. Good Book. Good Plot....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48935343">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not sure if I liked this book or not. It was a detective/police story about a double kidnapping and a psycho kidnapper. It had a surprise ending that I didn't see coming. The epilogue was unrealistic. Patterson should have left it out and not tried so hard to &quot;wrap it up&quot;. He had a lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54166019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first James Patterson book I've read, having avoided them in the past because they seemed way too creepy. I had trouble rating it and finally decided on only 3 stars because it was so graphic in describing the violence. That being said, it was a real page-turner that I couldn't put down-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51619929">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book after the slow start. When I first started reading it, it didn't catch my interest right aways, but after a hundred pages or so, Patterson stepped it up a notch and really got the mysteries and murder cases going. It was cool to read about a killer that kept escaping from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39685307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ finally made myself sit down for a couple hours and finish the last 250 pages or so. I’m glad I did.<br/><br/>Along Came A Spider was really good in the fact that the plot was creative and unique, and it was fresh. The book was bad in… every other fact. I’m sorry to say that this will be th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48818524">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first of the Alex Cross mysteries.  I like the character.  I am an action/adventure fan.  The first part of the book was all action and I enjoyed that part.  But I was not thrilled with the love interest.  It was too much like how all the crime TV series lately have introduced too much &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76576971">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good Psycho/Thriller/Cop novel.  I think I'll look into more of Rollins' titles.  I enjoyed it.  <br/><br/>A black cop (who incidentally is a psychologist) gets thrown into the middle of the highest profile kidnapping of the century where he finds himself a pawn in that a psychopath has had...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50434795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great suspense, definitely kept my attention, but not the best writing ever.  I haven't been impressed with his more recent books and hoped I'd like the early ones more, but the characters, dialogue, etc was still just unnatural and unrealistic.  The ending baffled me.  It was completely unbelievabl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76009072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not sure I would read another in this series.  It's the second James Patterson I have read and in both cases his use of the first person was distracting and annoying.  I really don't like any author who does this unless they are EXTREMELY talented wordsmiths or they are writing in a diary style.  Ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55918010">more...</a>]]></body>
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