Two joggers are found murdered in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park, and the killings are bizarrely reminiscent of a Washington, D.C. case that Alex Cross has been unable to solve. He is called to San Francisco, and then learns of similar murders in eight cities from Las Vegas to Charleston. Together with a female San Francisco detective, Cross plunges into a menacing world where posing explodes into bloodlust and frenzy, even as he is being stalked by a terrifying criminal who calls himself the Mastermind. James Patterson is at his most shocking and suspenseful best in a novel that will stun and satisfy his vast audience. A major feature film of Along Came a Spider hit theaters in April 2001, and the NBC TV mini-series of 1st To Die will air in Fall 2001. Fans love Alex Cross, and every book in that series (Along Came a Spider, Pop Goes the Weasel, and Roses Are Red) is a bestseller. Roses are Red has over 900,000 copies in print and it was #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. 1st to Die was #1 in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and others.