Kiss the Girls: A Novel by the Author of the Bestselling Along Came a Spider

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Little, Brown, Dec 11, 2002 - Fiction - 464 pages
Join Alex Cross on his most terrifying murder case yet in this #1 New York Times bestseller and one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads."

In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In the sequel to Along Came a Spider, Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing-and they are working coast to coast.

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Page 72 - They pick up only the main channels — pain and orgasm"); useless to women ("A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"); sexually maladept and inconsiderate ("The lovemaking was fast and furious.
Page 193 - The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
Page 69 - When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum; When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.
Page 52 - Don't like the feeling I get from the Martians. Don't like their beady little Martian eyes. Don't think I like the new South." "You think about it, we'd fit in the same anywhere,
Page 290 - He was strong, smart, funny, kind. He loved children, and was even in touch with the child in himself. He had a sculpted body, fabulous bone structure, a sensational torso, also. Yes, she had a crush on Alex Cross.
Page 343 - I got to the end of the block I turned and looked back at the Hangout and made up my mind.
Page 326 - How many brothers you pull that shit on? How many young men you call 'homes' and humiliate like that? — like you might fuckin' understand what their life is about.
Page 294 - I knew what I wanted to do, what I had to do, what I'd been planning to do for the last few hours.

About the author (2002)

James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson's books have sold more than 375 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.

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