#Alex Cross

[cinemagal]

Cary Elwes as Detective Nick Ruskin KISS THE GIRLS (1997)

#filmgifs #moviegifs #userreel #userfilm #cary elwes #film #kiss the girls #alex cross #action #crime #adaptation #1990s #hotvillains #villains #characters #can we not pls #guys

[homenecromancer]

This is a partial transcript of "Washington Mysteries", an NPR segment from 17 December 1999, in which Linda Wertheimer interviewed three mystery authors whose newest books were set in Washington DC. To listen, click the source link on this post.

This transcript covers from 12:11 to 15:10, or the first three minutes of the eight-minute segment. The speakers are Noah Adams [NA], Linda Wertheimer [LW], and James Patterson [JP].

NA: It's NPR's All Things Considered, I'm Noah Adams.

LW: And I'm Linda Wertheimer. Here are some novels to consider, if you'd like a bloodthirsty interlude in the holiday season. Three mystery novels, all set in Washington. The first is by James Patterson. He writes about a psychologist turned cop named Alex Cross, a black man who is widowed with two small children. But Patterson doesn't write about philandering Presidents or corrupt Congressmen -- Washington just happens to be Alex Cross's city. I suggested to James Patterson that he could set his stories in Cleveland, or almost anywhere, but he said, "Not quite."

JP: I like Washington. I always found it interesting, and it seemed to me that a lot of things can believably happen to Cross in Washington.

LW: What do you mean?

JP: Well, a lot of kinds of plots that are scary. I mean, you can go from plots about the government, you can deal with things in Washington, which is a complex city that has, you know, both a lot of wealth and a lot of poverty. You got the FBI and the CIA, and yeah. There's a lot of believable plot material there.

LW: Well, now, we who live in the city, uh, like the way that you get the geography straight, and we like all the sort of interesting details, like the, uh, traffic jam caused by the construction of the Turkish chancery is mentioned in this book, uh --

JP: Mm-hmm.

LW: --the crime rates are different in different quadrants of the city, uh… Of course, we are local. I mean, does it work for, for other folks?

JP: Yeah, I, I mean, I tend not to put a ton of detail in my -- I find out a lot of things, and then I sort of keep it out of the story to a certain extent. So there's enough in there for the stories to track for people, and I want to make, you know, the information I do finally put in the book accurate. But I, you know, well, um, somebody asked me, you know, when I started going from being, you know, mildly successful to selling an awful lot of books, and, and part of it had to do with, um, you know, leaving out the parts that people skim.

LW: That's when your chapters became, uh, two and a half pages long. [laughs]

JP: Well, you know, that was sort of an accident. I, um, I used to have a day job, and I wrote about forty pages of one of the books -- or forty chapters, I mean. And I, I was planning to put in a lot more detail --

LW: Go back and amplify.

JP: -- yeah, and I said, you know, I kind of like this this way, and I went back and, and amplified a little bit but not too much. You know if we were, if I was telling this story right now, and I, and I said, this morning I came out of the driveway and there was a dead man in the road. And then I went on for the next ten minutes telling you about the style of the road, and the style of the house, and the house across the street, you'd say, but, well, what happened with the person in the road, you know? And I think that gets in the way of a lot of potentially good stories.

LW: James Patterson, thanks very much.

JP: Oh, you're very welcome.

LW: James Patterson's new book is called Pop Goes the Weasel.

#james patterson #alex cross #articles #npr #transcript #long post #btw i opted to attempt and transcribe everything i heard so that’s why there’s Um all over

[alex6186]

My WCW aka Woman Crush Wednesday A breakout TV star and social activist Yara Shahidi

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#WCW #WomanCrushWednesday #WCE #AJBWCW #YaraShahidi #Blackish #Grownish #PeterPanAndWendy #Saltmovie #TheSunIsAlsoaStar #Smallfoot #TheFirstFamily #KidStar #ButterMovie #HarvardGraduate #Unthinkable #IntheMotherhood #ImagineThat #ZoeyJohnson #AlexCross

#wcw #woman crush wednesday #my wcw #ajbwcw #actress #wednesday #yara shahidi #grownish #blackish #zoey johnson #alex cross #peter pan and wendy #freeform #Harvard Graduate #social activists #Salt Movie #kid star #in the motherhood #black is beautiful #black excellence #black girl magic #tv stars #beautiful young woman

[vallygirl285]

She is an absolute riot on Murdoch Mysteries.

#siobhan murphy #amazon cross #cross #alex cross #aldis hodge #murdoch mysteries

[world-of-ryan]

#alex cross #ryan eggold #aldis hodge #isaiah mustafa #james patterson #cross

[dyinggirldied]

Haven't read either of the book series but like

Alex Cross meets Alex Rider

#alex cross would have probably most likely adopt alex rider #still why so many alex in high investigation organization #alex cross in fbi and alex rider in mi6 #alex cross #alex rider #book series

[bkenber]

Rachel Nichols Talks About the Making of 'Alex Cross'

Rachel Nichols Talks About the Making of ‘Alex Cross’

RACHEL NICHOLS stars in ALEX CROSS WRITER’S NOTE: This article was originally written back in 2012. She has had memorable roles in movies like “P2,” “Star Trek” and “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” but it’s going to be hard to forget about Rachel Nichols after watching her in “Alex Cross.” As Detective Monica Ashe, partner to Cross and lover to Detective Tommy Kane (Ed Burns), Nichols is a strong…

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#2012 Movies #Acting #Alex Cross #Beverly Hills #Detroit #Detroit Police Department #Ed Burns #Emmett/Furia Films #Envision Entertainment Corporation #Four Seasons Hotel #IAC Productions #James Patterson #Monica Ashe #Police #QED International #Rachel Nichols #Rob Cohen #Summit Entertainment #Tyler Perry

[lectorapromedio]

Continuei andando de cômodo en cômodo, todos silenciosos, e senti uma tristeza insuportável. Fui acendendo as luzes no caminho, sentindo-me uma visita em minha própria casa. Nada da minha vida parecia certo ou ao menos real. O mundo tinha de fato se tornado um lugar muito cruel e inseguro. Como isso havia acontecido?

- "O Dia Da Caça" [Cross Country, 2008], James Patterson . Tradução de Fabiano Morais

#james patterson #alex cross

[captaincolossal]

I had no reason to expect better of this series, honestly, and yet I did. Probably because of Morgan Freeman. Like these (so far) are just decent actors doing their best, whilst being terribly let down by...everything else. So. But there's only one more, and that's something.

Alex Cross (2012)

Oh, and this one has Tyler Perry instead of Morgan Freeman.

#alex cross franchise #alex cross #franchise binge 2k21

[metalshockfinland]

ALEX CROSS to Release New Album "Crosswords" on March 12th

Photo courtesy of https://www.facebook.com/alexcrossmusicofficial “Crosswords” will be released on March 12th via Wanikiya Records, the newest recording work by artist ALEX CROSS! The record will be available in digital format, on all digital music stores, on the label’s Japanese shop and on showcase on Crash Sound Distribution! A record full of emotions, musical techniques, atmospheres that…

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#ALEX CROSS

[wellreadtherapist]

Sunday habit stacking 📚🧺

#reading #kindle #alex cross

[that-irish-witch]

Nothing is more infuriating than not having so many books from a particular series but you don't have all of them

So I'm collecting the Alex Cross series by James Patterson and I am missing book 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, and then I'm missing 18, and every book after 20

And it's so frustrating cause I can't even truly start the series yet cause I don't have book 2!

#book #booklr #booklover #missingbooks #james patterson #Alex Cross

[booksperience]

(via London Bridges by James Patterson)

In London Bridges by James Patterson, a maniac sadistic criminal, who goes by the alias Wolf, is on the loose, but hiding in the dark. He is set out on a personal project of blowing up some bridges and city centres in places like Washington, DC; London; Paris; and Tel Aviv. He would send advance notices to authorities before each incident occurs, offering to refrain from the act if they paid a hefty ransom and released some political prisoners. Alex Cross moves from country to country chasing Wolf. The story begins with the bombing of an entire mobile-home park in Sunrise Valley, Nevada. It is mostly a free-flowing story, punctuated with occasional twists and turns, yet not that thrilling. There is an element of suspense from the beginning to the end concerning who Wolf is and many speculations and investigations to uncover his identity. However, there is hardly anything intriguing enough to tempt you to move from chapter to chapter. I couldn’t help comparing it throughout the read with some other thrillers with which you cannot help being compelled to turn the page at the end of every chapter to get the answer to something puzzling in it in the subsequent one. The plain and straightforward language made for a fast read. The chapters have been kept short so as to span not more than two or three pages, perhaps to make it all crisp by a rapid change in situations and settings instead of dragging the reader through the same scenario for pages. So, there are a total of one hundred and twenty-four chapters. However, a considerable part is occupied by descriptions of Alex Cross’s affairs associated with his family and other connections, which is hardly interesting and an unnecessary distraction that only diluted the central theme and its suspense, ultimately compromising the potentia... (Read full text on booksperience.org)

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[duranduratulsa]

90's Fest Book of the day: Pop Goes The Weasel by James Patterson (1999) #book #books #fiction #novel #suspense #thriller #suspensethriller #mystery #popgoestheweasel #jamespatterson #AlexCross #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas3rdannual90sfest

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[vallygirl285]

Ohhh nice!!

#aldis hodge #alex cross #cross #amazon #amazon prime #amazon cross

[world-of-ryan]

#ryan eggold #isaiah mustafa #alex cross #alexcross #amazon #prime video #amazon prime video