Re-issued in a stunning new style to coincide with a major TV campaign. Since the original publication, Along Came a Spider has become a highly successful movie starring Morgan Freeman as our hero Alex Cross. James Patterson is one the world's bestselling novelists still writing today. Along Came a Spider continues to sell over thirty thousand copies per year. Making it one of Harper Collin's bestselling backlist titles.

'Brilliantly terrifying... so exciting that I had to stay up all night to finish it... packed with white-knuckle twists.' Daily Mail 'An incredibly suspenseful read with a one-of-a-kind villain who is as terrifying as he is intriguing. One of the best thrillers of the year.' CLIVE CUSSLER 'Terror and suspense that grab the reader and won't let go. Just try running away from this one.' ED MCBAIN

James Patterson combines his position as one of the fastest-rising stars of modern thriller writing with a career as the chairman of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in New York. He first reached the top of bestseller lists around the world with Along Came a Spider, which introduced his popular detective hero Alex Cross, who also appears in Kiss the Girls, Jack and Jill, Cat and Mouse and his most recent novel, Pop Goes the Weasel.