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Oct 2, 2026
speaker_1HOST
Oh.
speaker_0HOST
James Patterson's The Family Cross is the 36th Alex Cross book, and JD Robb's Fury in Death, that is the 63rd novel in the In Death series.
speaker_0HOST
63.
speaker_1HOST
That's just wild.
Jason GillikinHOST
Give us some examples.
Jason GillikinHOST
Are you a James Patterson, Alex Cross fan? Are you a Freda McFadden fan? What inspired you based on what you
Donald ThompsonGUEST
read? Yes and yes.
Donald ThompsonGUEST
And whether it's Jason Bourne or James Bond, I'm like so many... thriller readers, right? And I was going to put a gender on it, but that's wrong.
Tim EhrenbergHOST
Like, if you have multiple characters, is there one that usually you keep coming back to? Like, that's the one closest to me.
James PattersonGUEST
I think it is more usual that I would have, you know, Alex Cross, whatever.
James PattersonGUEST
So I'll give you an example.
James PattersonGUEST
You talk about this book.
JillHOST
I read recent...
JillHOST
This year, like, only last month, month before, I read the first ever one in the Alex Cross series.
JillHOST
It was Along Came a Spider.
JillHOST
Absolutely loved it.
JillHOST
But that's, like, his first ever book.
JillHOST
You know, like...
JillHOST
Literally the first in the series of the Alex Cross.
JillHOST
And it was just, it was very, very, very good.
Richard OsmanHOST
So 50 years he's done that.
Richard OsmanHOST
Started as just any regular writer, thriller writer, the Alex Cross series, very- various other things like that.
Richard OsmanHOST
And then very quickly got into this idea of franchising himself out.
Marina HydeHOST
Yeah.