TY - BOOK AU - Patterson,James TI - Along came a spider T2 - Alex Cross series SN - 9780007432325 U1 - 813.6 22 PY - 2011///, c1993 CY - London PB - Harper KW - Kidnapping KW - Fiction KW - Cross, Alex (Fictitious character) KW - Police KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - Detective and mystery stories N1 - Originally published: 1993 N2 - He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids, it was headline news. Then one of them was found -- dead -- and the whole nation was in uproar. For such a high-profile case, they needed the top people -- Alex Cross, a detective with a PhD in psychology, and Jezzie Flanagan, an ambitious young Secret Service agent -- yet even they were no match for the killer. He had the unnerving ability to switch from blood-crazed madness to clear-eyed sanity in an instant. But was he the helpless victim of a multiple-personality disorder -- or a brilliant, cold-blooded manipulator? ER -