The Big Bad Wolf( Series - Alex Cross )

The 19th national bestseller by Patterson marks Alex Cross's debut with the FBI. His first case: beautiful women across the country are being kidnapped and possibly sold into slavery. Behind this depraved scheme stands The Wolf, a master criminal who brings a new reign of terror to organized crime.

- Nearly seven million James Patterson novels were sold in 2002 alone.- Patterson's most recent Alex Cross novel, Four Blind Mice, was an instant New York Times bestseller. It will be published in mass market in October 2003.- The Jester, published in March 2003 was a #1 bestseller, received a starred Publishers Weekly rave and has nearly one million copies in print to date.- The Beach House was a #1 bestseller and the blockbuster of the summer of 2002. It has sold over 943,000 copies to date.- The huge success of the films Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider have made Alex Cross a hero to a huge and growing audience.