Gritty, authentic and unputdownable. The best military adventure I have ever read.

A striking debut ... told with great verve and an eye for detail, it crackles from first page to last, and makes Smith a name to look out for

Down to earth and dirty like it is. Mackenzie Smith captures what others miss. People need to know.

The writing is good, the characters strong…I would recommend this to anyone who likes a good thriller

I wrote, "Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I've come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season's no. 1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name." A household name, indeed.

Every once in a while a writer comes along and fundamentally changes the way people read. He or she is so bright, so innovative, so industrious that what they envision and create becomes the measure by which all others are judged. In 1993 one such writer - James Patterson - began to do just that ... James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged.

[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages.

Alex Cross is a legend.

Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.

Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination.

Patterson is in a class by himself.