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Written by James Patterson - Audio book performed by Robert Guillaume and Chris Noth - Abridged Fiction - 2 CASSETTES - 3 hours

Publisher, Listening Library (June 2000)

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The first mega-bestseller of 1995! Detective Alex Cross is back in a coast-to-coast thriller that's even scarier and more suspenseful than Along Came A Spider.

Two depraved serial killers are on the loose. "Casanova" is abducting young women from colleges in the Southwest.

The "Gentleman Caller" is terrorizing Los Angeles.

The worst part is, the FBI thinks they're talking to each other. They seem to be competing. And they may even be working together. But at least one of them has made a serious miscalculation.

The favorite niece of Washington D. C., police detective Alex Cross has been kidnapped. Burned out after his last case, Cross is in no mood to take on another killer. But now he has no choice. This time it's personal.

About the Author: James Patterson is one of the top-selling novelists in the world today. His debut novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, won the Edgar Award for the best first mystery novel. It was published by Little, Brown in 1976 when he was just twenty-seven years old, after being turned down by more than two dozen other publishers.

He has since written a string of major national bestsellers that includes the nine books in the series featuring detective/psychologist Alex Cross -- Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls, Jack & Jill, Cat & Mouse, Pop Goes the Weasel, Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Four Blind Mice and The Big Bad Wolf-- as well as The Lake House, The Jester Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, Cradle and All, When the Wind Blows, and Hide & Seek. There are currently three books in the bestselling "Women's Murder Club" series, 1st To Die, 2nd Chance and 3rd Degree.

Paramount Pictures' feature film adaptation of Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross, was a box office hit in 1997. Morgan Freeman reprised the Cross role in the film adaptation of the first novel in the series, Along Came a Spider in 2001. NBC bought the rights to 1st To Die and aired a three hour mini series starring Tracy Pollan and Gil Bellows in February 2003. Miracle on the 17th Green, a novel co-written with Peter de Jonge, was also made into a television movie, starring Robert Urich.

In addition to writing novels, Mr. Patterson served as chairman of J. Walter Thompson, North America from 1990 to 1996. He began his advertising career as a junior copywriter with the company in 1971 and went on to become the youngest executive creative director and youngest chief executive officer in the company's history. He made his mark at the agency by creating award-winning campaigns for Kodak, Burger King, Toys R' Us, Bell Atlantic, Bristol-Myers and others. He collaborated with advertising colleague Peter Kim to produce the nonfiction bestseller The Day America Told the Truth.

Patterson grew up in Newburgh, New York. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English from Manhattan College and summa cum laude with an M.A. in English from Vanderbilt University.

James Patterson lives in Palm Beach County, Florida, with his wife and their young son.