His deadliest foes are Geoffrey Shafer and Gary Soneji both have been killed through the course and events of the book series. However, she later gave Ali back to Alex, who had joined the FBI at the time. Afterwards, she tried claiming custody over Ali and succeeded. She later leaves Ali with Alex dealing with traumatization over her kidnapping in Pop Goes the Weasel. Alex later meets a woman named Christine, who becomes pregnant, giving birth to an additional third child for the Cross family-Ali. After giving birth to two children, a few months or years later, she is murdered. He also later met his wife, Maria, in Washington, and married her. During his childhood, he met his later best friend John Sampson. He went to Washington, D.C., to live with his grandmother-Nana Mama. When Alex was 9, his father died of alcoholism, a year after his mother died. ("Ali"), and his current and new wife, Brianna "Bree" Stone-Cross.
Cross currently lives on Fifth Street in Southeast Washington, D.C., along with grandmother Nana Mama, children Damon, Janelle ("Jannie"), and Alex Jr. Cross later reveals another reason for trying to solve the cases: so he can protect his family from danger. An ongoing theme in the earlier novels is the unsolved murder of his first wife, Maria.
In some books, Cross sometimes works with-or against-the President/Secret Service in a few books such as Along Came a Spider, Jack & Jill, I, Alex Cross, and Kill Alex Cross. One of his regular foes in the earlier books is Gary Soneji, the "Mastermind" who wants to kill Cross, out of revenge for Alex putting him in prison. For example, in Merry Christmas, Alex Cross, Cross misses out on Christmas Eve and Christmas itself to focus on finding and defeating a terrorist group. It mainly focuses on Cross trying to solve very difficult cases while attempting to maintain a relationship with his family.
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The series has led to three films, Kiss the Girls (1997), Along Came a Spider (2001), and Alex Cross (2012).Īlex Cross is a widower-detective-father who often fights against threatening villains-and criminals who wish to kill Cross and others. The first book in the series, Along Came a Spider, was released in 1993 to positive reviews, spawning a series of over twenty subsequent novels. The series is published worldwide, with Little, Brown currently holding publication rights in the United States, in paperback, hardcover, and audiobook editions. Nearly all have made bestsellers lists and garnered favorable reviews, especially Double Cross Cross Fire I, Alex Cross and Alex Cross, Run.
The series has been running since the 1990s and is ongoing. The series is usually narrated in first-person perspective by Alex Cross, and occasionally from the villains' point of view in third-person. Supporting characters include two of Cross's children, Damon, and Janelle, as well as his grandmother Nana Mama. The series focuses on Metropolitan Police Department detective and father Alex Cross as he faces threats to his family and the city of Washington, D.C. Novel series by James Patterson Alex Cross series Along Came a SpiderĪlex Cross is a crime, mystery, and thriller novel series written by James Patterson.
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