The main character, a homicide detective. Deputy Chief of Detectives and in his mid 30s in Along Came a Spider. Has a doctorate in psychology. Works and lives in the ghettos of Washington DC. Smart and observant, hard-working, and black. Has 2 children, D...
In "Along Came a Spider," he is a teacher of math and computer science at Washington Day School. Balding with a droopy moustache. Popular with students. Nickname Mr. Chips. Smart with an ego.more...
An FBI Special Agent. Becomes one of Alex Crosss go-to people at the FBI. He works at their facilities in Quantico, Virginia.more...
Alex Crosss grandmother. About 80. She lives at his house, and generally rules the roost. Lovable but feisty. Raised Alex since he was 8.more...
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WPD Chief of Detectives. Alex Crosss immediate superior. His admin. assistant is Fred Cook.more...
"Jack." Hes been stalking US Senator Fitzpatrick from London to New York to Washington, DC. Over 6 feet and trim. more...
A US Senator. Owns a current model Jaguar. Married. Has a second home in suburban Georgetown....
Blond with a sight limp. Meets Senator Fitzpatrick who is about 20 years older than her. Has a Washington career job. Bright....
Hes near the Sojourner Truth Elementary School site offering colourful balloons to those interested.more...
A little girl of 6 who attends Sojourner Truth school. A sweetheart....
A young homicide detective with the Washington DC police....
A Korean businessman. "Uncle Jimmy." Owns Ho-Woo-Jung restaurant on 8th. He asks: Does Chop-It-Off-Chucky, the molester of young children, really exist?more...
A young black man, nicknamed Roadrunner. Alex and John know him....
Sometimes works as a porter at Famous Pizza. Lives in the Northfield Village projects. Has a reputation....
The head of the police department in Washington, DC. Usually a poilitical appointee....
The new principal at Damon Crosss school, the Truth school. Tall and attractive. Alex thinks her first name is Christine. Her husband George is a lawyer and lobbyist.more...
A TV news anchor. Striking. About 58" and blond. Never forgets a name. She bumps into Scott Cookson at the Council on Mental Health event.more...
President of the United States. Relatively down-to-earth as Presidents go. Tall, 50 and fit. The Secret Service codename for him is "Jack." His wife Sallys codename is "Jill."more...
A 7 year-old boy at Sojourner Truth elementary school....
A WPD detective who works with Cross and Sampson. Also Shaun Moore....
A motion picture star visiting D.C. Hes 49 and from Wichita, Kansas. more...
An Agent with the Secret Service. Assigned to the First Family. One of his lieutenants is Agent James McLean....
National Security Adviser to the President. Mid 30s....
She has worked at the White House for 9 years. In her mid 30s....
A photojournalist in San Francisco. 43. Loves games. His nieces and nephews adore him. His sister lives in Silver Spring, Maryland....
The head of the Nipray Corporation of Japan. He is arriving in San Francisco on a business trip....
A 17-year-old homeless youth in D.C. Alex had met him at the St. Anthony soup kitchen....
A Supreme Court Justice. Haughty. His female friend at the theatre is Charlotte Kinsey, 23, a 2nd year law student - she has friends in high places....
A real person. (1941- ) A CIA agent who was also selling secrets to the Soviet Union / Russia. Arrested in 1994 and jailed for life....
The CIAs inspector general in D.C. Former law professor. Husband Brett. She knows a former employee, Andrew Klauk, a contract killer, a large man in his 40s. more...
Shes been Dr. Crosss personal analyst for several years. About his age.more...
The man-in-charge at Theodore Roosevelt military training academy in DC....
General Cornwall is a former member of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Married with 2 kids. Lives in McLean Virginia....
Shes employed as a censor with IBMs Prodigy network. One subscriber is Army Colonel Frank Moore, his wife Connie and their 13-year-old son Sumner.more...
A real person. 1741-1801. Served with the American Continental Army under Washington, but defected to the British in 1780. Became known as a traitor. Lived in London for the last decade of his life on a British Army pension....
A classmate of Sumner Moore at Theodore Roosevelt Academy....
Vice President of the United States under Thomas Byrnes. Former Governor of Florida....