Soneji gets Megan alone in his office and quickly subdues her and drives her to his waiting yacht.

Hank Rose (Michael Moriarty), and Dimitri Starodubov (Anton Yelchin), son of the Russian ambassador to the U.S. Fields-like makeup disguise alone should make him extremely suspicious to authorities, teaches a class on Charles Lindbergh and has his eye on two prized pupils, Megan Rose (Mika Boorem), daughter of Sen.

private school, a teacher named Gary Soneji (Michael Wincott), whose bad, W.C. Months later, the self-doubting Cross burrows inside himself by building model ships, but a kidnapping is brewing to bring him back into the hunt.Īt a tony D.C. This thinking detective puts his partner in a dangerous situation with a serial killer, and like Sylvester Stallone’s character in “Cliffhanger,” watches her tumble to an awful, precipitous death. Though the opening moments shrewdly avoid the temptation to reintroduce Freeman’s familiar Cross, they are nevertheless as generic as can be. Script pares away considerable action and complications while altering the identities of the victims and the spellings of character names.Ī new ending was reshot late into production, but may not have been a vast improvement on any previous variations of “Spider.” The conclusion is all of a piece with the rather plodding whole, helmed by Kiwi director Lee Tamahori, whose third Hollywood feature continues a string of disappointments after his first work, the bracing “Once Were Warriors.” And now, reader, he's about to become yours.While Patterson’s fans will have to refrain from revealing the story’s key twist, they may not recognize other elements that screenwriter Marc Moss changed in his adaptation. Gary Soneji is every parent's worst nightmare. Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the 'crime of the century,' is playing at the top of his game. What is she running from? What is her secret?Īlex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair-at the worst possible time for both of them. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she's got an outer shell that's as tough as it is beautiful. Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years, now one of PBS's '100 Great American Reads'Īlex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D.

Along Came a Spider by James Patterson